Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks. - James Richardson

The road reaches every place, the short cut only one.

I’m surprised that multiple personalities are so much less common in reality than in fiction: what a little disorder it would take, a distraction, a sleep, for one of our minor characters to imagine he was the star, to speak out for everyone else. And that’s what it would be, a change of billing, not of authorship. For you do not write your play—you are just the character in it called The Playwright. The real writer, you never meet.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.