The Falls
Fiction, from 1996: “Being overly certain, he was relatively sure, was what eventually made one a wacko.”
On the dangers of self-knowledge: "Being overly certain, he was relatively sure, was what eventually made one a wacko. So humility was the thing, he thought, arranging his face into what he thought would pass for the expression of a man thinking fondly of his own youth, a face devoid of wackiness or perversion, humility was the thing."