“My sister is quick to call somebody a friend, even somebody she hardly knows, if it suits her book. Come to think of it, I haven’t any friends at all. Since I grew up I haven’t had a single friend. Friendship–what a leprous word! People use it every day ad nauseum so that it’s become utterly devalued, at least as much so as the word love, which has been trampled to death.” – Thomas Bernhard, Concrete