For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry.

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

Do not underestimate objects.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.