For sensitive human beings… a hole in the ego can be worse than a hole in the heart. – Norman Mailer, address at Hopwood Awards, University of Michigan, April 1984 #cr

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. – William Ralph Inge

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. – Montaigne

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. – Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854 #infj