To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

Some people are troubled by their mediocrity. Some, by their greatness.

It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to think well of yourself while you are envious.

Our successes are seldom as sweet as our enemies’ failures.

Our failures are way less likely than our successes to be ignored by our enemies.

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.

Some of the people who are showing off their speed are headed in the wrong direction.

Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.