If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.