Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.

It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.