Michael Simsa

“It appears that the prostitute, not the salesman, best exemplifies the qualities indispensable to success in American society.”
― Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations

“Here each of us must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving int he crowd?”
― C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

“The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world.”
― C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

“There is, if you don't mind my saying so, something sinister about men who avoid wine, games, the company of charming women, and good dinner-table conversation. People like that are either seriously ill or they secretly disdain their fellow men.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita