Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt
Wisdom
The more personal it is, the more universal it is.
— Judd Apatow, interviewed in Esquire, about the greatest showbiz lesson he’s learned
The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
— John Watson, founder of IBM
It was hard to feel weird in a place where everybody was weird.
— from The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
But he took on so much and went so far in the end his real victim was himself.
from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Basically they were just assholes, though, and took it as the measure of God’s satisfaction with them that everybody else thought they were assholes.
from The Peripheral by William Gibson