There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

When it's done with being graceful and poetic, language is meant to communicate, after all.

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.