It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.