You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.