Amit Cohen

“Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.”— Ben Okri

The highest purpose of friendship lies in a capacity to offer a fellow broken human a hopeful and

redemptive message: I - like you - have been odd; I - like you - have been mad; I - like you - have been guilty.

No one is normal, and therefore no one is beyond love and sympathy.

“I think one thing that is a really important thing to strive for is being internally driven, being driven to compete with yourself, not with other people. If you compete with other people, you end up in this mimetic trap, and you sort of play this tournament, and if you win, you lose. But if you’re competing with yourself, and all you’re trying to