Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.