You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

We just had a near-life experience!

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk