Don’t let yourself be victimized by the age you live in. Its not the times that will bring us down, any more than its society. When you put the blame on society, then you end up turning to society for the solution…There’s a tendency today to absolve individuals of moral responsibility and treat them as victims of social circumstance. You buy that, you pay with your soul. Its not men who limit women, its not straights who limit gays, its not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don’t have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.
— Tom Robbins, Still life with woodpecker
