Author: Philip Roth
"Because we don't know. Do we? Everyone knows - How what happens the way it does. What underlines the anarchy of the train of events, the uncertainties, the mishaps, the disunities, the shocking irregularities that define human life.
Nobody knows.
'Everyone knows' is the invocation of the cliche and the beginning of banalization of experience, and its solemnity and the sense of authority that people have in voicing the cliche that's so insufferable. What we know is that, in an uncliched way, nobody knows anything. You can't know anything. The things you 'know', you dont know. Intention? Motive? Consequence? Meaning? All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what we pass for knowing."
