“Communication happens on the listener's terms.” Surrounded by Idiots

Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.27, Routledge Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis

“He alone knew something that even initiates didn’t know how easy it was to fast.”  A Hunger Artist

“[…] she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried. [It] reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life […] – almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed – had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.” Midnight Library