I don’t want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

What i want is for what i want to actually matter.

What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.