“Beyond the pressing matters that life hypnotizes everyone to believe is real, there is very little that actually threatens a calm man’s sense of peace.”

“There are too many ants attempting to march in the same direction and the hard-wired fear of scarcity begs each passing citizen to act in insincere ways and so pretend to be something quite bloated from the norm.”

“The great paradox is that peace must be an enduring effort of defense against one’s inherent nature as a creature of conflict.”

“A man is all the while editing his sense of identity within his own mind as well as incessantly attempting to edit or predefine the impression he has on others.”