You know what you know— what Descartes calls “the holy music of the self”
On addiction: “Absolution from end-stage chemical obsession tends to force otherwise faithless men to their knees.”
“In a broader sense, addiction can be enormously simplifying… It leads to a life that is, in a way, remarkably organized. What are we doing today? Exactly what we did yesterday, give or take.”
Emerson’s credo: moderation in all things, especially moderation
On life going by so fast: “…I was terrified of missing anything. I wondered whether my own personal velocity, the mad to-ing and fro-ing of my everyday life, was a fearful response to the thought that life would get away from me.”