Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.