The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short term conversation is a toxic cultural myth that robs guys of self-confidence and that holds them up to an unrealistic standard that they have to become a super-extraverted narcissist in order to 'score with women'

I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius, and so I wanted to go to the hardest academic school I could to see if I was really as smart as I thought I was.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.