Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed

Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.

I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.

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.