The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but also because I enjoy it.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.