Andrea Benito

The Kindle’s cloud library already makes the idea of a library arbitrary on a practical level.

When I was more Middle Class I bought $10,000 mattress from Hästens. I had to pay about $1500 a month to pay off the mattress, and $500 in rent. Crazy? Not at all.

What a crazy experiment.

Have no idea why I stumbled upon this today.

Holding a dead body will tell you everything you need to know about time.

Don’t wait for someone to choose you. You don’t need them anymore. You don’t need advice. You just need to listen to your heart and pursue that passion with an illogical fervor.

Politicizing academia is the highest calling of education. You go spend your time doing math puzzles or reading Moby Dick, while we change the world.

My grandfather put it to me this way: If a key opens lots of locks, then it’s a master key. But if a lock is opened by lots of keys, then it’s a bad lock.

Yeah, my friends who fascinate me the most are normally the crazy ones, the ones who burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Small Black of JagJaguwar Records has a new music video out for their poppy, shoegaze single “No Stranger.”

Poetry is something like normal prose accelerated, and Kanye West is a poet.

I really want you to know why I am the way I am.

Falling in love is passive. After all, it’s a falling movement. Standing in love is an altogether different beast.

It just happens so naturally, it seems.

“THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY LIFE.”

Millions of people want to be in the NBA. But only 500 or so people each year have what it takes to be in the NBA. And you know what? Half those players are on the bench all the time. This is how everything works and odds are that you aren’t talented enough to make it as a writer, a top-tier surgeon or lawyer, entrepreneur, or whatever.

Americanism will persist through small independent tribes working electronically and across the globe.

You don’t give kids a lot of freedom. Kids are too impressionable and vulnerable for freedom. You don’t give a 7-year-old the right to buy alcohol, get married, or drive their bike too far from the neighborhood (let alone drive a car) because the consequences would be catastrophic.