“Every other virtue is a derivative of this capacity, subordinate to it, and the measure of its quality within a man ranks him along an invisible hierarchy.”

“The anecdote in a crazed situation is always to turn conceptions upside down, inside out, or simply throw them out of the window and so leave the senselessness for the cinema.”

“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.”

“Whatever conceptions meet his gaze as he walks through fields of concrete, pretending all the while to understand what is going on, must be viewed with a solid tinge of disbelief.”

“It is exactly these wrong, rigid and constricted ways of thinking that make him vulnerable to negative and naïve moods; childish states of emotion that blame everything and everyone when the events of life fail to meet up to the small ego’s expectations.”

“Neither heritage, nor tradition, nor genetics of any kind, confer upon him an inheritance that he can consider a merit of his own.”

“He is drowning in his own inattention.”