“What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.”
“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
“No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”
“It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
“Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.”