“Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.”

“There was an electric buzzing sound that was constantly on, acting as background music like a million cicadas in the forest. A constant white noise.”

“It created a murmur of voices, from which no single word could be discerned. Instead, it synthesized the sound of bees buzzing around in a mad swarm, angered by a breach of their hive.”

“Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.”

“emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy. It is to know the past and to use such relevant history as a template for expectations. It is, most of all, to force reason ahead of instinct, to refuse to demonize that which you hate, and to, most of all, accept your own fallibility.”

“It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.”