Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
There are two sorts of losers - the good loser, and the one who can't act.
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.
Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.