"How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life."

"I'm reading Günther Anders' Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen ..That bit about Promethean shame impressed me..observations about the shame of being oneself, the reluctance at stepping out of line, of be…"

"For his life is, of necessity, full of conflicts, since two forces fight in him: the ordinary man with his justified claim for happiness, contentment, and guarantees for living on the one hand, and th…"

"Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored."

"Henry David Thoreau told us: "All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end." …Goethe told us: "One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, …"