Simon

“Life isn’t chess, a game of perfect information, one that can in theory be ‘solved’. It’s poker, a game where you’re trying to make the best decisions using the limited information you have.”
― Tom Chivers, Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World

“He was aware that the horizons of his interest had shrunk, but he accepted this as the price of survival. It was a genuine wonder he had survived at all.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“In a book, all would have gone according to plan … but life was so fucking untidy – what could you say for an existence where some of the most crucial conversations of your life took place when you needed to take a shit, or something? An existence where there weren’t even any chapters?”
― Stephen King, Misery

“There’s a world we can’t see. It exists separately and concurrently with the real world. You enter this world by the offering of prayer and incantation. You live in this world wholly within your mind. You dispel the real world through mental discipline. You rebuff the real world through your enforced mental will. Your interior world will give you what you want and what you need to survive.”
― James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women