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If you're stupid, how can you tell? He may blunder through an undergrowth of clichés, but he understands what he did and why. He'll flourish, without a backward glance, unless caught and punished, and then he'll never blame himself, only his bad luck among random events.
- Ian McEwan, Nutshell, p.147
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