Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood. - Frank Herbert

"A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with it's plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as Nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems. When a human gains this knowledge and respect, that is called "being primitive". The converse, of course, is equally true: the primitive human can become sophisticated, but not without incurring dreadful psychological damage."

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.