Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

A ring is a halo on your finger.

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'

Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.