Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.
The only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
It would be funny if it were not serious.
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn. Now, pick up your feet, into the firehouse with you!
So few want to be rebels any more. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.