It is actually a principle of modern paternalism that if you want something you should be stopped from having it[…] Most foods are harmful to some pe… - Celia Green

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

I spent a couple of years between eleven and thirteen analysing the social evaluations that were taken for granted, also acquiring a thorough scepticism about processes regarded as causal, and the consistency of the physical world, as well as the reliability of my own mental processes. By the time I was thirteen I was running out of things to think about, so starting on a run of exam-taking seemed all the more appropriate, as I was finding it difficult to make use of spare time.

The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality,as does the imminence of death.