“How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.”
“This had just gone beyond suspiciously easy to how-stupid-do-you-think-we-are easy.”
“It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.”
“There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.”
“The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.”
“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.”