to affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts (thoreau)
civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces (rousseau)
we’ve allowed all aspects of culture to become politicized, digitalized, and monetized to the point of disillusionment. community, critical thinking, and truth-seeking have given way to fashionable ideologies and groupthink. (erik rittenberry)
i was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless i caused it (charles bukowski)
you can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it (wendell berry)
to be happy, we must not be too concerned with others (albert camus)
never before has a generation documented itself so much while doing so little (noah becker)
not till we are lost do we begin to find ourselves (thoreau)
the writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. and he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true (john steinbeck)