From the nightstand (The Big Seven, Jim Harrison):

Sunderson reflected on what made men so messy. It wasn't just drinking but the corrupt spirit behind getting drunk, a general malaise of letting go of good sense and order in life. It was the deadly sin of greed that kept swallowing. He couldn't blame divorce because it had started way before and was part of the reason behind the divorce. Sunderson decided it was a faulty worldview that he would have to change. Diane meditated a half hour early every morning before work. She didn't make a big deal about it. She just described it as a half hour of total quiet so she would be ready for the maelstrom of life. Sunderson didn't quite get that part. Life was just life, rolling on in inevitable disorder. Now, however, he was aware that he had to work his way up through the sludge that he had accumulated in his life. It seemed compacted in his soul. He wanted the clear cool feeling of a ten-year-old getting up at dawn for a hike around a lake. It was a purity of intent that he wanted rather than sliding from one confused day to another.