The mere recognition of an extrinsic reality damages the intrinsic merits of one’s own reality. In other words, it’s a mistake to (consciously) do what everyone else is doing, just as it’s a mistake t...
The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.
So think how this might alter the memory of : In some protracted reality, film historians will reinvestigate an extremely commercial action movie made by people who (unbeknownst to the audience) would...
Perry wanted to be the villain, probably for strategic reasons. But it didn’t take. He wasn’t smart enough; he probably didn’t even know how Ayn was pronounced.
It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.
In any situation, the villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.
If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is to be creative by the world at large, so you're really just following a rote creative template. That's the
I think the larger sect of liars are people who think they are telling the truth, but who really have no idea what the truth is.
I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.
I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation. —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinn...
I care about strangers when they're abstractions but feel almost nothing when they are literally in front of me. They seem like unnamed characters in a poorly written novel about myself, which was poo...
Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like of music.
Both lyrically and sonically, glam metal is the sensible accompaniment for removing one's pants for money.
And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.
There’s no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class, it just means you’re rich and insecure or poor and misinformed.
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.
Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's Should've Been a Cowboy, and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. Should've Been a Cowboy is not like Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive, where...
This is how the present must be considered whenever we try to think about it as the past: It must be analyzed through the values of a future that’s unwritten. Before we can argue that something we cur...
The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.
The reason something becomes retrospectively significant in a far-flung future is detached from the reason it was significant at the time of its creation—and that’s almost always due to a recalibratio...