Kelani’s Reviews > Travels > Status Update

If wild animals – and wild nature – were less frightening, perhaps civilization would be less palatable. But the truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.

I think the only true expression of one’s beliefs lies in action.

Isolation brought its own reality. Even mundane events became worrisome.

(Sean Connery) always tells the truth as he sees it at the moment, and if somebody doesn’t like it, it’s their problem.

The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one’s eyes, is powerful indeed.

The closer one looks at history, the less coherent it becomes.

The closer one looks at history, the less coherent it becomes.

I realized then that I had defined myself too narrowly.

I began to think of all the places I hadn’t been…
It was time to find out what I had been missing.

“Be careful about ‘obviously.’ If it’s really obvious you don’t need to say it. And if it’s not obvious it’s insulting to say that it is.”