"The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn’t really over, so you’re relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL."
"Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig."
"I suspect revenge is one of those things that’s better in principle than in practice. I mean, there’s no real satisfaction in making someone else suffer because you have."
"We are herd animals, walking off a cliff if that’s what others do, desperate to follow the rules by which our neighbors live, to win their acceptance and respect."
— “Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World” - Tina Rosenberg