OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.