existentialist

"As a matter of simple logic, there's no difference at all, that I can see, between the man who's greedy for material treasure - or even intellectual treasure - and the man who's greedy for spiritual treasure. As you say, treasure's treasure, God damn it, and it seems to me that ninety per cent of all the world-hating saints in history were just as acquisitive and unattractive, basically, as the rest of us are." - Zooey Glass, in Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

I'm not saying that I second what he says. It just makes me ponder.