We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind of narrative fundamentalist in many ways.

I don't like things that aren't true.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.