The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive

Adulthood feels like walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.