No man can step into the same river twice,
for the second time it's not the same river,
and he's not the same man.

If you don't want to see it, don't look.
If you don't want to hear it, don't listen.
If you don't want to know, don't ask.

“No one can genuinely love the world,
which is too large to love entire. To love
all the world at once is pretense or dangerous
self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving
the idea of love, which is perilous because,
feeling virtuous about this grand affection,
you are freed from the struggles and the duties
that come with loving people as individuals, with
loving one place -home- above all others.”

Odd Hours by Dean Koontz