'Get yourself a wife
Get yourself a job
You're living a dream
Don't you be a slob'

[Slob by Weezer]

I write because one day (I was an adolescent)
I looked in the mirror and no one was there.
Can you imagine? A void. And those
around me gushed importance.

[from Rosario Castellanos]

A football match is more exciting because you don't know who'll win; a field of intellectual study is absorbing because you don't yet have a handle on it all. To be delighted by another person, or moved by a landscape or piece of art, requires not being in full control.

[Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman]