May 28
"...Certainly it's extra work! Fine things, fine ideas, fine people, require work! This entire age is indulgent and selfish and shortsighted, complaining that easy things are not as easy as they'd like." He lifted a hand before him, half shake of a fist, half artistic passion. "If you want quality, you must work for it. You wake and you strive and you make decisions to sacrifice. An easy life will never bring the kind of satisfaction the soul craves. I despise people who lounge all day as if there weren't more important ideas than comfort, complacency, and appetite. Stretch yourself! Be industrious! Do something!"
-The Pirate, Ben Chambers, in The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 7
