“When you have to make a hard decision, prepare to ram something into your [redacted] with prejudicial force and follow through. Just before this gesture succeeds, you’ll know what you really want: relief from insipid maxims like this one. As you reel in the agonizing aftermath, you may want to find me and cause me to repeat the experiment myself. But I will be gone. All that will remain is the question. What was the question, again?”

— Nosho