"The individual has not changed. The individual cannot change. And maybe that's what we need. We have to return to the individual: to the genuine individual who knows that life is brief, that the joys are few, that what matters most in this universe is to have somebody to love and somebody who loves you. We are in an enormous waste land and it's the individual who has to confront all these things by himself. That has been the one thing closest to my understanding."
-- Eric Hoffer, 1974, quoted in ERIC HOFFER: THE LONGSHOREMAN PHILOSOPHER by Thomas Bethell (Hoover Institution Press, 2011), p. 253
