I’ve always been a refusenik, beginning with refusing the suburb that I grew up in, refusing the kind of work that was provided for me as a kind of fate, refusing the war in Vietnam, refusing the beginnings of a plastic corporate culture.
“The world is arranged in such a way that the daftest sayings have their truth, and if a man thinks that’s enough, it’s by no means enough. Man supposes, God disposes, and the jug goes to the well every day til it breaks.”