Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs__hatever__ust so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that__ what life is like, that__ what interests me.

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

I just thought, __ait a minute, if I__ going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I__e ever been in my life. _ It__ like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It__ like, __m, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just_I have to_It__ super important for my law!

How you feel after watching something indicates not what you watched but where you are at.