Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.
Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.
Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.
Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way.
Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.
Most novelists write about twisted lives.