Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be treated as a semiformal occasion.

We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait... No matter what... pressure... you might feel.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?