Brant

“Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery

“Nobody will press your buttons
or reflect your asshole to you better than your woman. She will point
out your weaknesses better than a boot camp drill sergeant.”
― David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

“It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.”
― Michael Moorcock

“A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.”
― David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire