It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

Consciously cultivate the ordinary.

It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

A good title should be like a good metaphor: it should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.