Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.