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

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

you're doomed at being you.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.