Status Updates From Haute fidélité

“I’m sorry I’ve been a bit of a jerk. I do appreciate what you’ve done for me, and I know you’ve done it for the best possible reasons, and I do love you, even though I act as if I don’t.”
“That’s OK. You do seem so cross all the time, though.”
“I know. I don’t get myself.”

“You’d keep your options open for the rest of your life, if you could. You’ll be lying on your deathbed, dying of some smoking-related disease, and you’ll be thinking, ‘Well, at least I’ve kept my options open. At least I never ended up doing something I couldn’t back out of.’”