“Neurosis is the way of avoiding nonbeing by avoiding being”
“Ah yes, the dreaded one-way system. . . He and Nancy had laughed later, imagining Dante redesigning Purgatory into a one-way system offering occasional glimpses of St. Peter and the pearly gates over two separate sets of dividing concrete barriers.”
“Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.”
“But risk always looks different when you are beating he system than when you've been beaten”
“Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.”