This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.