You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I always expected some sort of new perspective or fresh insight about the family on returning. That doesn't happen anymore-the days of revelation about my parents, at least, are over... its time to move on. I think we'd all appreciate that.

What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.