Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good

by Kevin Smith

But there are two ways into any person, body or soul: through the heart and through the head. The eye is less reliable, because it only sees—and what we see changes every day. But shit that’s lodged in your head or heart? That never goes anywhere. It’s not visible, so it’s an image that’s only corrupted by our own folly. The flesh decays, but memories of a feeling, an insight, an intellectual or spiritual impact? They only burn brighter with time. We race toward the future while we lionize the past. We look ahead for half our lives, then spend the other half looking back. Written or spoken, words are the foundation of reality,