Written in Silver

Never ignore your first instinct just because it isn’t what you want to believe.

“listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go”

“they’re not going to let you feel good for very long anywhere. the forces aren’t going to let you sit around fucking off and relaxing. you’ve got to do it their way.”

“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”

No one:

The education system is not designed to turn out thoughtful individualists, it is there to get us to work. When we come home exhausted from the inanities of our jobs, we can relax in front of the inanities of the TV screen. This pattern, punctuated by birth, death and marriage and a new car, is offered to us as real life. Children who are born into a tired world as batteries of new energy are plugged into the system as soon as possible and gradually drained away. At the time when they become adult and conscious they are already depleted and prepared to accept a world of shadows. Those who have kept their spirit find it hard to nourish it, and between the ages of twenty and thirty, many are successfully emptied of all resistance. I do not think it an exaggeration to say that most of the energy of most of the people is being diverted into a system which destroys them. Money is no antidote.