Carl

“We’re like the comic strip character Hagar the Horrible who, when asked which he’d choose, power, gold, or true happiness, chose power: “With power, I could get the gold, and then I’d be happy.” We find Hagar’s idea humorous because we know better. Yet most of the time we ignore this very knowledge, and act (or at least think) much like Hagar.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple

“Those who are aware,” he said, “do not die. Those who are ignorant are as if dead already.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple

“you’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.’ ‘What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?’ ‘You ask a glass of water.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“They hang the man and flog the woman Who steals the goose from off the common, Yet let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.”
― Alastair Humphreys, Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness