If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.
Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.
Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.
We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.