Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more. There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
Energy is the power that drives every human being.
It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche. The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy and envy.