Without pain, we couldn't know joy.
It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.
You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!
It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks—at least so far—are fairly limited in their awesomeness.
When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.