—YOUR THERAPIST WILL SEE YOU NOW

 

…“5-banger.”

 

…Some Killer Queen you are.

 

…I’m confused. Shocker, I know.

 

…What if you don’t really think that much? What does that say about you? And should you even care?

 

…I pressed Save for you. Doesn’t that mean something?

 

…“We all come from hard, but we are also soft.” Jay Halsey

 

…The grass only grows on the side it’s watered.

 

… That dog won’t hunt. And there’s a reason. Have you ever asked, Why not?

 

…Everyone is dead, or else they’re married.

 

…Is the party over? Did tomorrow come too soon?

 

…“Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep. Nine if you’re ugly.” Betty White

 

…The more you know, the less you do.

 

…“I always liked to just be around books, to experience that new-book smell, to hold books in my hands and flip them back and forth and look at the covers and then the author photos and wonder about the authors—the magicians—who created them out of thin air. I wondered how lucky it must be to be one of them.” Harlen Coben

 

…I want to have a clue, to understand, but I guess I don’t.

 

 …“You talk glibly about your life being changed, but it’s weird when it happens. I feel like a proper writer at last: totally lacking in confidence.” M. John Harrison, winner of the 2026 Booker Prize for The End of Everything

 

…There’s nothing as serious or funny.

 

…“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” Pablo Picasso

 

…I get a little protective and defensive about the idea of friendship. If I’m your friend, I’m going to put in the work to be your friend. I’m going to show up. I’m going to be intentional. It’s “Show, Don’t Tell” all the way. And if you can’t, well, not to be blunt, but we’re not really friends, are we?

 

…It takes 60 seconds to send a text.

 

…Even if I got sent an un-funny video, I’d think: At least they were thinking about me, and I’d reply. 

 

…And yeah, I have more time. I totally get that. But still.

 

…Isn’t that really the point of life? Correct me, please, if I’m wrong about this.

 

…“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curios.” Albert Einstein

 

…None of us our what we appear to be.

 

…You’ve got to bring your own weather to the party.

 

…There are very few experience more satisfying than settling back and knowing you’ve already done something productive.

 

…“I’ve only ever been inside my own life. No one else’s. I’ve been in this life so long that I’m starting to grow numb to it.” Ellie Fumbi Lain Reid

 

…Oh, wow, I think I might have to lift something. Like, something heavy right now.

 

…From The Rehearsal, by Nathan Fielder:

 

--“People are very good at hiding their true feelings.

 

--“Ultimately, it’s about rejection.”

 

--“Maybe there were just so accustomed to hearing ‘No’ that it didn’t matter to them.”

 

--“I came to realize that Fantastic was the word she used, the word that changed everything.”

 

--“I disagree. I believe that any human quality can be learned and adopted. Sometimes it just takes time.

 

--“I’ve always felt like sincerity is overrated. It eventually just punishes those who don’t perform as well as others.”

 

…Tragedy is a good teacher—it’s just too damn harsh.

 

…And wow, that’s a bad rating for The Breakup, a movie I think about all the time. 5.8 is pretty much an F.

 

…“I had to learn ten pages in less than forty-eight hours. I stayed up the entire night running lines; by the time I landed in Los Angeles, I hadn’t slept in two days. Mike’s office was a series of palatial rooms with high ceilings, and in my memory it included a bar, which is where I first saw him. “Oh, hi, would you like a drink?” he said. He was always so casual, almost seductive. Then they brought in Katharine Ross, who was outrageously beautiful. I felt foolish, like I had to apologize to her for looking like I did.” 

Dustin Hoffman, on his screen test for The Graduate

 

…Sometimes, most times, I’ll ignore the thing I hate most, and then when I deal with it, I’ll just spin.

 

…Kurt Vonnegut’s birthday on Tuesday. Here are my favorite wisdoms from him:

 

--“The arts aren’t a way to make a living. They are a way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem and send it to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” 

 

--“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is’.”

 

--“We have to continually be but jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”

 

--“Here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

 

“Hello babies. Welcome to earth. It’s hot in summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of babies—Goddamn, you’ve got to be kind.”

 

“Beware of the man who works had to learn something, learns it, and then finds himself no wiser than before.”

 

“Who is to be pitied more, a writer bound and gagged by a policeman, or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say.”

 

“And I asked myself about the present; how wide was it, how deep was it, how much was mine to keep.”

 

…The irony, and hypocrisy here is hilarious:

White House warns incoming House Oversight chair it ‘will not be extorted’

…And this as well:

The White House has floated that it may seek to investigate the investigators in the incoming Congress.

 

…“A poem is an egg with a horse in it.” –4^th grader

 

…I think it’s this one, right? This tarnished thing, that you love. Please tell me the truth. I want to know if you actually, really love it.

 

…The good news is I feel happy for moment.

 

…I’ll just go ahead and admit it: I’m wayyy too sentimental.

 

…I’m confused but it’s just you and me.