Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.

Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn’t. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn’t.

Our ignorance has left us proud of some of the things of which we ought to be ashamed.

Some technologies have made it possible for one to travel to the other side of the world in order to see something, whereas some have made that unnecessary: if it were not for things such as the camera and the Internet, some African boys would have never seen a Chinese woman’s vagina.

Often what we see as progress in the right direction is merely the improvement of a wrong solution.

Landscaping is a never-ending attempt to make some parts of nature look civilized.

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.