My dear, One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourself out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast… a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourself and your life for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and...

My dear, The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. Truly yours, John Fitzgerald Kennedy

My dear, As we get older, the world become more and more addictive. The problem is that this addictiveness won’t differentiate between what we want to be addicted to and what we don’t want to be addicted to. Therefore, if we want to get any work done, we’ll have to constantly be on guard against everything; we must suspect everything. For, as I said everything will be addictive (it might already be). We’ll just have...

My dear, Happiness is something you achieve, a constant thing. A constantly turning over thing, like a small plant that has flowers constantly blooming and dying on the same stem. It’s not like you achieve happiness this one time and it just stays with you forever. You don’t bake a cake because a cake makes you happy, you don’t bake that one cake because you baked this cake or bought that car you wanted to get. You’ve always wanted...

My dear, Everything is more complicated than you think. We only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make. You can destroy your life every time you choose. But, maybe you won’t know for twenty years and you may never ever trace it to its source. And, you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And, they say there is no fate, but there is! It’s...