"When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry."
- Darrin Grimwood
"I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again."
- Gillian Flynn
"It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure."
- David Foster Wallace