You step into it, on purpose, and let the person who built it believe he’s won.

Let me explain why fighting it never works, because it took me years of watching other people lose to understand it, and it is the single most useful thing I know.

A trap like the one on my dining table is not built to catch you.

It is built to make you catch yourself.

Every response available to you has already been assigned a meaning that serves the person who built it.

Refuse the papers, and you’re irrational; you’ve proven you can’t be reasoned with.