The hilarious tragedies of life:

1. You are not obliged to love anyone.

2. No one is obliged to love you.

3. Nobody will ever fuck you as hard as the people you love.

4. No one can ever really know what it’s like to be anyone else.

5. All beauty is subjective, as is all suffering, and all pain.

6. Dishonesty and sincerity make up equal measures of the human heart and are both genuine expressions of a given individual.

7. All decisions are made in near-total ignorance.

8. We are all born into a caste.

9. Money is only paper but the comforts it can buy are actual comforts.

10. You’re only really a human being for a good, solid, thirty years.

11. If you don’t compromise, the dreams that drive you will become the nightmares that haunt you.

12. You will compromise.

13. You will still be crippled by doubts.

14. Some nights, you’ll want to drink yourself to sleep, other nights, you’ll have to.

15. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed but is nevertheless an exhaustible resource.

16. Nikola Tesla is dead.

17. Kurt Vonnegut is dead.

18. Jorge Luis Borges is dead.

19. People you love will die. You may cry, feel anguish, relief, even. Mostly you’ll just be terrified for yourself.

20. You will die. You probably won’t be ready for it. You will likely be quickly forgotten. So it goes.