The compulsive overachievement of today’s elite college students – the sense that they need to keep running as fast as they can – is not the only thing that keeps them from forming the deeper relationships that might relieve their anguish. Something more insidious is operating, too: a resistance to vulnerability, a fear of looking like the only one who isn’t capable of handling the pressure.
~ William Deresiewicz
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You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
~ Milan Kundera
Here is tragedy—and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.
~ H. L. Mencken
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One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
~ Salvador Dali
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