Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.