“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations

“A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.” - Charles F. Kettering

"It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you." – Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

— Cormac McCarthy

“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”

― David Shields, Reality Hunger

“The narcissism of small differences.’ That’s a phrase coined by Freud. ‘Der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen.’

It means, I think, that when two things are very similar, you end up inflating the small differences between them far more than you would the larger differences between two less similar things”