Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).

Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.