The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day, when the sun goes down and the supper is to be cooked.

The important thing is the educational experience itself-how to survive it.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

Lose yourself in the song of the instructions, in the precise, detailed balm of having solved for you that most difficult of problems, what to do next.