“Idealism kills. Mutual interests save lives.”

- Minister Chen from Madam Secretary

Charisma is often just the absence of tension/rigidity in conversation

Nostalgia is a socially malignant force

Bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit

Love is making space for someone not just when it's convenient but especially when it's not

“Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.”

- Neil Strauss

"If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known"

"If no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something"

- Jenna Marbles (I think)

"An adaptation is an act of violence”

-Denis Villeneuve

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of cont