Michael Simsa

“There is, if you don't mind my saying so, something sinister about men who avoid wine, games, the company of charming women, and good dinner-table conversation. People like that are either seriously ill or they secretly disdain their fellow men.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world.”
― C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

“Even if, juristically speaking, we are not accessories to the crime, we are always, thanks to our human nature, potential criminals. In reality we merely lacked a suitable opportunity to be drawn into the infernal melee.”
― C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

“Dating for me in my twenties was like this musical-chairs thing. Everybody was running around and having fun. Then I hit thirty and it was like the music stopped and everybody started sitting down. I didn’t want to be the only one left without a chair. Sometimes I think I married my husband just because he was the closest chair to me at thirty. Sometimes I think I should have just waited for someone who might be a better partner, and maybe I should have, but that seemed risky. What I really wish I’d done is thought more about marriage sooner. Like when I was in my twenties.”
― Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now