No! Not easy. Not easy at all! At this v...

No! Not easy. Not easy at all! At this very moment, twelve million stars are pumping light in and out of a three hundred and sixty degree notion of limited universe. Not easy. At this very moment, a dozen Long Island oysters are stranded in some laboratory in Chicago, opening and closing to the rhythm of the tide -- over a thousand miles away. Not easy. At this very moment, the sun is probably hurtling out of control, defying ninety percent of all organized religion -- plummeting toward a massive world collision that was predicted simultaneously by three equally archaic cultures who had barely invented the wheel. At this very moment, some simple peasant in Mexico is planting seeds in his veins with the blind hope that flowers will bloom in his body before the frost kills him.! And here we stand, the combined energy of our three magnificent minds focused irrevocably on a jacket. My God. There are more important things I promise you.

Cristofer, Michael. The Shadow Box. Samuel French, Inc. New York, NY. 1987. pp. 55-56.