— I suppose they're gonna lock me up as well... as your accomplice.
— Accomplice? I'm gonna tell them the whole thing was your idea.
The subject's mind can always trace the genesis of the idea. True inspiration's impossible to fake.
A simple idea. Trust myself.
An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious. And the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define... or destroy you.
What is the most resilient parasite?
A bacteria? A virus?
An intestinal worm?
An idea.
Resilient. Highly contagious.
Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate.
An idea that is fully formed, fully understood, that sticks.
If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman—always a rash thing to do—he never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong. The only thing he considers of any importance is whether one believes it oneself. Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.