“Artisanal” is a word to dignify the menial labor that is all that most of the workforce can manage; we will need more such words.
It doesn’t matter how many people hate you, provided it’s for different sets of mutually exclusive reasons.
Some are born incapable, some achieve incapacity, and some have incapacity thrust upon them.
The biggest business in the world is allowing people to express thoughts and feelings that they are unable to articulate.
Women dislike each other because of men, and so do men.
Thinking, like plumbing, is something we rarely do for ourselves; but no one imagines that he does his own plumbing.
Many supposed gold-diggers are digging not for gold but for the capacities that amassed it.
It requires only belief in a few fashionable ideas to make the world a place of endless wonder and constant surprise.
First we were killed by nature, then by rulers, and finally we resorted to killing ourselves.
It is frequently remarked that IQ tests measure your ability to perform well on IQ tests; the same could be said, more accurately, of school.