"The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about."

“I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping books for four years now, and I am never going to give them back.”

Source : Joey Comeau (2009). “Overqualified”, E C W Press

“To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.196, Spiegel & Grau

“I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.”

“Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.”

Source : "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

“Technology is super smart and also completely dumb. It doesn't know what you're putting on there. It works almost in an automated fashion.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!”

“Well, that’s interesting,” I said. “What’s interesting?” Jack called from the other room. “Something is interesting?” Lend shouted. “No! Nothing!”

“People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.”