“We are accustomed to repeating the cliche, and to believing, that ‘our most precious resource is our children.’ But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is of practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.” — Michael Chabon (Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son)
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“Communism works only in heaven where they don’t need it, and in hell, where they’ve already got it.” — President Ronald Reagan (via ajamison)
“I live alone and I am almost never lonely. I am also rarely bored. Then I realized something that seemed startling at first: During those atypical times when I am bored, I am almost always with other people. I’m never bored when I’m alone. I don’t consider myself an introvert. I love to socialize (with people who do not bore me), I love the visits (time-limited) from friends and family who come to catch up with me and soak up the sun from my deck, and I love to entertain. But I also cherish my solitude.” — The American Psyche: Tipping Toward Solitude?
“If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it’s too late!” — Michael Chabon (Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son)
