It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.

My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.