You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.