Cultural History suggests that men have always had a greater inclination to close their eyes than to open them, to believe comforting lies rather tha… - Stephen Vizinczey

During all my wandering through two decades and two continents, I've found nothing more pathetic than the universal misery of young boys trying to charm young girls.

There may not always be a way where there's a will, but on the other hand - if success isn't certain, neither is failure.

[...] our confidence in foretelling and influencing events increases in inverse ratio to our ability to do so. The farther we go from ourselves and from the present, the less we sense the probabilities, and it is easy for us to be "dead certain" about things we cannot possibly know anything about.