Other people will feel awkward changing the subject from your health problems because there’s no way to do it gracefully. That’s your job.

I found accounting nearly impossible to learn because of the bubbling moat of boredom that surrounds the entire field.

It is tremendously useful to know when people are using reason and when they are rationalizing the irrational. You’re wasting your time if you try to make someone see reason when reason is not influencing the decision. If you’ve ever had a frustrating political debate with your friend who refuses to see the logic in your argument, you know what I

we all know that money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong.

You can further game your willpower by allowing yourself unlimited quantities of the good sort of food, at least until your cravings for the bad stuff subside.

But wow, the general public doesn’t hold back. They were savage about my art skills—no surprise—and that was just the tip of the hateberg.

it’s hard to know when a cartoonist is being serious and when he or she is constructing an elaborate practical joke. I’ve crafted pranks that spanned years, sometimes when no one was in on the joke but me. Some of those pranks are still percolating. I have posed as other people online and even in person.

Eat right, exercise, think positively, learn as much as possible, and stay out of jail, and good things can happen.

“Wow. That was brave,” is the best and cleanest example I’ve seen in which looking at something in a different way changes everything.