"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era - a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic pressure to 'know' everything under the sun." - Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
From The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
"Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!"
"Can't we do anything about it?"
"No!"
"Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.
"Letters sustained but also deepened relationships. And the care and attention devoted to a letter's composition and reading were themselves expressions of affection and respect. Once read, a letter often became a keepsake and, in time, an heirloom." - Nicholas Carr, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear us Apart
From Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowki
"And sometimes I have doubts. Would you like your son to have doubts like that?"
"Why not?" the merchant said gravely. "He might as well. For it's a human and a good thing."
"What?"
"Doubts. Only, evil, sir, never has any."
