Love and Loathing

"If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted--I'd have to depend on the whole world.Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net,the net is waiting,and we're pushed into it by one single desire. You want a thing and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them--just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept."

-Dominique Francon in "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand
this is a qoute from one of my favorite books and it reflects very well how i feel about the world...