make your own way

if you want to do something new, stay away from the shiny lights.

Glamour is stale, a dead stump layered with extreme amounts of perfume and paint to make it appealing, but ultimately meaningless and uninteresting.

Status does not disrupt to make things better. It’d rather things get worse, so its value grows higher.

And that little trickled-down wealth that you get? That comes with complacency, docility, and dread