"There's too much of the Director's bitterness in you," David decides. "Because... people made it harder for him to keep himself together. Look at what he did to his daughter. Look at how he handled his grief. Or really, didn't handle it. He broke himself by refusing to look to others."

He knows it, it's so fresh and raw in his mind. "People don't get in the way. They are what make life worth living."