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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.
Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.
Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?
I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.
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.
There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.
Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.