"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present. Honorable Schoolboy, John Le Carre

I have no idea what the name of the book is, I read it 25 years ago, but a character in it was talking about life and either them or another chatacter eventually broke it down to

ride the waves

I took it as there's ups and downs. That's ok, just ride the waves.

"He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt."

Fear is the mind killer…

Right now?

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

Yeah. It's going good.