BEING HASSLED BY OTHER PEOPLE'S PRINCIPLE

"Unless they're after you for something else you're not worth the paperwork. I've learned that's generally true of life, if you're not worth the paperwork adults won't hassle you. Except for the truly dumb and the nutcases of course, people who act on principle. They'll hassle you." Russell Banks, Rule of the Bone: A Novel (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), at 49.