You become who you pretend to be.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.