What author always soothes you?
For me it's Alasdair MacIntyre or Aristotle. If I want reason, I want one of them. Most of the world is batshit, but when I open MacIntyre or Aristotle's work, my field of vision is encompassed by sane and truthful. Temporarily, I am relieved of superstitious, selfish, erratic, and insane. I'm rereading Aristotle's Physics for the first time since university.