- What is it?
- I'm afraid your son has... the knack.
- The knack?
- The knack. It's a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical... and utter social ineptitude.
- Can he lead a normal life?
- No. He'll be an engineer.

Dilbert

- What makes you qualified to be a reporter?
- I'm willing to violate anyone's privacy for my personal gain and then claim with a straight face that the public has a right to know.

Dilbert

♪♫ There goes my hero
Watch him as he goes
There goes my hero
Hes ordinary ♪♫

My Hero, Foo Fighters

Letting The Cables Sleep
Bush

You in the dark, You in the pain, You on the run
Living a hell, Living your ghost, Living your end
Never seem to get in the place that I belong
Don't wanna lose the time
Lose the time to come

Whatever you say it's alright
Whatever you do it's all good
Whatever you say it's alright
Silence is not the way
We need to talk about it
If heaven is on the way
If heaven is on the way

You in the sea, On a decline, Breaking the waves
Watching the lights go down
Letting the cables sleep

Whatever you say it's alright
Whatever you do it's all good
Whatever you say it's alright
Silence is not the way
We need to talk about it
If heaven is on the way
We'll wrap the world around it
If heaven is on the way
If heaven is on the way

I'm a stranger in this town
I'm a stranger in this town
I'm a stranger in this town

If heaven is on the way
If heaven is on the way
I'm a stranger in this town
I'm a stranger in this town

“Así, pues, tened la modestia y la lealtad de confesar que, si a mí me es imposible comprender a Dios, vosotros tropezáis con el mismo obstáculo. Tened, en fin, la probidad de reconocer que, si porque a mí no me es permitido concebir y explicar a Dios, se me niega el derecho a negarlo, a vosotros, como a mí, no os es permitido concebirlo ni explicarlo, tampoco tenéis derecho a afirmarlo.”

Doce pruebas de la inexistencia de Dios y otros ensayos ateos, Sebastián Faure

- Even if love is just a contextually contingent psycho-social construct?
- Especially so.

PhD Comics

Love, Hate, Love
Alice In Chains

I tried to love you; I thought I could
I tried to own you; I thought I would
I want to peel the skin from your face
Before the real you lays to waste

You told me I'm the only one
Sweet little angel - you should have run
Lying, crying, dying to leave
Innocence creates my hell

Cheating myself; still you know more
It would be so easy with a whore
Try to understand me little girl
My twisted passion to be your world

Lost inside my sick head
I live for you but I'm not alive
Take my hands before I kill
I still love you, I still burn

Love, hate, love

We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us

Magonila, Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson

Momentum
Aimee Mann

Oh, for the sake of momentum
I've allowed my fears to get larger than life
And it's brought me to my current agendum
Where upon I deny fulfillment has yet to arrive

And I know life is getting shorter
I can't bring myself to set the scene
Even when it's approaching torture
I've got my routine

Oh, for the sake of momentum
Even though I agree with that stuff about seizing the day
But I hate to think of effort expended
All those minutes and days and hours
I have frittered away

And I know life is getting shorter
I can't bring myself to set the scene
Even when it's approaching torture
I've got my routine

But I can't confront the doubts I have
I can't admit that maybe the past was bad
And so, for the sake of momentum
I'm condemning the future to death
So it can match the past

When I can't confront the doubts I have
I can't admit that maybe the past was bad
And so, for the sake of momentum
I'm condemning the future to death
So it can match the past.

- I'm allowed to sleep?
- Only in a lie-awake-at-night-obsessing-over-it kind of way.

PhD Comics