"We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology."

Next Quote

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

— Jim Harrison