Bad Monkeys

people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.

I was like one of those starving-artist types, people who convince themselves back in grade school that they have a destiny to become actors or musicians or writers. For them, college is a place to mark time until their destiny kicks in.

I had this image of Nancy Drew as a sort of closet bad seed, cooler than she had any right to be.

Conscience: the inner voice that warns us someone may be looking.
—H. L. Mencken