"We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy."

“Life comes from death, and weakness teaches us strength.”

Source : Dan Wells (2014). “The Partials Sequence Complete Collection: Partials, Isolation, Fragment, Ruins”, p.46, Harper Collins

“Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.”

Source : Source: app.longform.org

“Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.”

Source : Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.150

“Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.”

“If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.”

“Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.”

Source : Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.8, Dial Press

“Maybe a president who didn't believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.”

“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”