. "They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.” Gooseberries

Thus, because we are rapidly advancing along this non-sustainable course, the world's environmental problems will get resolved, in one way or another, within the lifetimes of the children and young adults alive today The only question is whether they will become resolved in pleasant ways of our own choice, or in unpleasant ways not of our choice, such as warfare, genocide, starvation, disease epidemics, and collapses of societies. While all of those grim phenomena have been endemic to humanity throughout our history, their frequency increases with environmental degradation, population pressure, and the resulting poverty and political instability. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we would call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat. Fragments

Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck