Noam Lerner

“Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth. If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there's maintenance.”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“we pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliability,”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“If I were making up a story, I would have it gray and miserable outside, but it was sunny and miserable instead,”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“It is true that something terrible might happen to you walking around by yourself at night, which is why I always ran instead of walking,”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast