Brains!

Some very relevant quotes from Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm.

"The American dream is for immigrants. The rest of us are better acquainted with entitlement and boredom than we are with our own survival mechanisms. And when confronted with a fight-or-flight scenario, the latter usually takes precedence. Escape through pharmaceutical, escape through technology, and plain old running away in search of something else, anything else. (10)."

In reference to his job at a law firm conducting research on high profile cases, mostly having to do with the telecommunications bubble: "Every boom is followed by a bust and, in America, someone will always find a way to make money off the bust-most likely lawyers. (15)."

In his 'I quit' letter to his boss: "I'm off to embrace spontaneity, imagination, and other stuff that doesn't exist around here. (22)."