Bret Easton Ellis

For example, with bullying.

I was bullied.

It taught me a lot of things.

It taught me to be covert.

It taught me what to avoid.

It taught me that people are shitty.

Kids are cruel.

And I moved on from that.

There was no other option.

I mean there weren't like bullying societies that you could go to where people helped you out.

You were pretty much on your own.

And in a strange way – and I talked to a lot of guys who were my age that it really –

made them stronger in a way that – you see kids today who are bullied in cyberspace committing suicide and you start wondering what kind of bubble were they raised in where they're not even able to deal with that on a certain level.

Where does that come from and what does that say to us about –

about ourselves as a society well i've said by the way i'm the only guy i know takes the pro bowling stance but um i say you know you have calluses on your fingers and on your feet for a reason that skin gets toughened up a little bit so you can handle a hot pot or you can walk barefoot on some hot sand or across the driveway if it was the kind of

skin you had on your belly would be incredibly painful just to walk from your bed into the bathroom at night.

You build up little calluses on things.

And that's what nature kind of is.

We're designed to build up a little callus in certain places.

Now, we're not designed to be repeatedly stabbed.