Ludvik Vaculik

"My childhood instinct was correct. One should not be so anxious to discover what people elsewhere possess and what they are doing. One should not be continually comparing oneself with others and always reckoning the disparities to one's disadvantage. And why struggle so hard to keep up with this or that when, for the most part, it's heading for the arse-hole."

The Axe by Ludvik Vaculik
Northwestern University Press: Evanston
1994 (first published 1996)
Page 133-4