Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, "You're being idiots, this happens every other year."

If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.

Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.