Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.
Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.