“Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.”

“But somehow things took a sinister turn, and the division of labor came to be understood as the demarcation of a social hierarchy. Women kept busy with numerous domestic responsibilities while their male counterparts' sole duty was tending to the flocks. Men had time to think critically, form political infrastructures, and ultimately, network with other men. Meanwhile, women were kept too busy to notice that somewhere along the line, they had become inferior. This is approximately when shit hit the fan.”

“The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.”

“It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.”

“It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.”

“Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.”

“Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.”