I'm Going to Talk My Way Out of All the Big Ticket Sins That Stick Out My Memory

"I let this old man sleep in a gutter blocks from my apartment every night for years. How could I explain that?" "If I don't shut out the humanity of these people or construct a story to put some distance between myself and what I see every day not just on the news but in my own town," he says. 'My humanity are theirs and I end up sacrificing theirs in order to continue thinking of myself as a good person'