It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.

The more you read, the more you calm down.

It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.