The most important point is - and remains - not to take oneself
seriously.  There is no past, and, certainly, no future.  There are
but a few years - ten at the most.  You pass your days as best you
can, doing as little harm as possible.  Let the desires be few and
treat expectations as weeds.  You read, scribble as the spirit moves
you, hear some new music, see every week the few people you are
attached to.  Again: guard yourself, above all, against
self-dramatization, a feeling of importance, and the sprouting of
expectations.

	- Eric Hoffer
	  (in Harper's Magazine, July 2005, p.75)