There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

We just had a near-life experience!

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.