This quote perfectly sums up how I felt about some of my relationships before meeting my wife:
[They] invoke the same sort of emotions one feels watching Werner Herzog movies: despair, hopelessness, and the exhaustion of doing loads of tedious work for almost no payoff.
This quote from Voltaire’s Candide sums up my attitude towards the things I choose to read:
For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose.
Finally, I love XKCD and sometimes Randall Munroe has classic quotes like the one below:
Written on May 23, 2022