Hard Candy

“Nu poţi iubi niciodată doi oameni în acelaşi timp. Iubeşti pe rând, când pe unul, când pe altul.”
― Mircea Eliade, Noaptea de Sinziene vol. 2

“His eyes flashing, Leary13 evangelized on a cascade of TV shows that he was the founder of a new religion, with cannabis and LSD as its sacraments. These drugs should, he said, be given to twelve-year-olds so they can “fuck righteously14 and without guilt”—and to prove the point he gave them to his own young teenage15 children, even as they went slowly insane.16”
― Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”
― Alain De Botton, On Love

“In response to the intensifying cruelty of children to one another, schools all over this continent are rushing to design programs to inculcate social responsibility in youngsters. We are barking up the wrong tree when we try to make children responsible for other children. In my view it is completely unrealistic to believe we can in this way eradicate peer exclusion and rejection and insulting communication. We should, instead, be working to take the sting out of such natural manifestations of immaturity by reestablishing the power of adults to protect children from themselves and from one another.”
― Gordon Neufeld, Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers