“It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.”
“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”
“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
“Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.”
“We move through our days with the comfort of familiarity, waking at the same time each morning and almost always the same way...”
“Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.”