If comfort goes with fashion, business people would be wearing pajamas. But fashion models would still be matchstick thin, aiming for the smallest loose-fit clothes.

Cynics can always find material by oversimplifying matters.

No man is an island.

I would never want to be a continent, though. I'm an archipelago person.

TIME discovers that obesity is contagious. Gosh, as if we need another social handicap...

The pressure it must be for someone being nicknamed the Wild Thing. He has to keep doing crazy stuff just to maintain his nickname. And even then, he has to escalate his craziness every time because the previous wild thing is not wild anymore.

Interrupt in a talk show to keep it interesting.

Keep talking in a social conversation to pretend it's interesting.

People always want to believe that they are different. That's the underlying power to fortune telling; those who feel it more strongly become more gullible.

The world balances itself not to be too happy.

I was so glad to think up this idea, before realizing Buddhists have thought of that 2500 years ago.

Songs depict eras.

How women see themselves:
1960s: Helpless without boyfriends
1980s: Loving but independent
2000s: Life of the party

How men like their women:
1960s: Fun-loving
1980s: Sexy
2000s: Slutty

Men hate to be bounded by rules, but not by other people. Etiquette is an example.