And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.