L.A.
“Kaiser Prevost: I have a theory about this town, this place, about the way it works: it operates best when people go beyond the bounds of acceptable behaviour. You reach a position, a course of action suggests itself, and you say, ‘This makes me morally uncomfortable’, or ‘This will constitute a betrayal of friendship’. In any other walk of life you withdraw, you rethink. But my theory instead goes like this: make it your working maxim. When you find yourself in a position of normative doubt then that is the sign to commit. My variation on this theory is that the really successful people go one step further. They find themselves in this moral grey area, they move right on into the black.”
From The Destiny of Nathalie ‘X’ by William Boyd
