Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.