I Am Neither An Optimist Nor Pessimist,

When You Are Seventeen You Aren't Really Serious.

In Our Rich Consumers' Civilization We Spin Cocoons Around Ourselves And Get Possessed By Our Possessions.

It Is Not Science That Has Destroyed The World, Despite All The Gloomy Forebodings Of The Earlier Prophets. It Is Man Who Has Destroyed Man.

I Am Neither An Optimist Nor Pessimist, But A Possibilist.

We All Run On Two Clocks. One Is The Outside Clock, Which Ticks Away Our Decades And Brings Us Ceaselessly To The Dry Season. The Other Is The Inside Clock, Where You Are Your Own Timekeeper And Determine Your Own Chronology, Your Own Internal Weather And Your Own Rate Of Living. Sometimes The Inner Clock Runs Itself Out Long Before The Outer One, And You See A Dead Man Going Through The Motions Of Living.