i just thought about it and - everything that comes out of simon’s mouth is bullshit. you never know whether he’s telling the truth or if he’s simply lying to you. even when he’s not with his nerdy, midwestern suburban golden boy mask on, even if he’s got caught and is giving an interview - his answers will always differ. they’ll always be somehow distorted. but in a way that makes sense, in a way that draws you in. he won’t give you the truth just because you want to, just because he’s probably got arrested and is on death row. he knows he’s there because he wanted to, because by the end of the day to die by lethal injection is what he wants. he wants to control his own ending, so there’s no reason at all to give people what they think is real when they can just make their own assumptions anyways. and maybe he is giving you the real deal, partially and in between the lines, but maybe most people just can’t tell.