For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.
I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That's my favorite version of a sea creature.
As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.
The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable.
This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.
I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.
Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.
. . . the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.
Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs, the throbs and quivers of my mortal body, each one of which is potentially a sign of the end.
Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.
At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.