I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.
My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

