“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur”

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

“Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.”

“Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone”

“Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse”

“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”

“I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough to not even try to derive any tangible benefit from the wealth (aside from the pleasure of regularly counting the beans).”