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Avoid safe roads. They usually lead nowhere.

When choosing your friends, the most important thing to look for is how they treat their enemies.

Success is having the money to buy a 70 meter yacht. Greater success is having the maturity not to do it. Real success is having the discernment not to want it.

Most people lug an ever-growing pile of garbage around with them until they die, at which point their kids throw it away.

Live. Do stuff. Don’t watch stuff. Don’t read about stuff. Don’t listen to stuff. Don’t talk about stuff. Do stuff.

If you treat a girl badly enough, she will usually fall in love with you.

It takes the first 40 years of life to learn to want the right things, at which point you generally stop caring.

What is it about female virginity that appeals to some men? They spend their lives hoping to have sex with a girl who’s almost certainly no good at it.

The Internet has shown us just how worthless most recorded words are. This will likely destroy organized religion in time.

More isn’t better.

Charity that isn’t given anonymously isn’t really charity. It’s a simple purchase of respect, goodwill and some degree of fame.

When you’re lying on your deathbed thinking about your life, do you really think you’ll give a damn about the safety you enjoyed, the money you saved, or the risks you avoided?

Wake up, eat, go to work, come home, eat, watch TV, play computer game, go to sleep. Repeat until dead. If that’s what your life looks like, you can save a lot of time by jumping now.

Nobody ever dies of a broken heart. They just wish they had.

Your intentions are nothing. Your plans are nothing. Your good wishes are nothing. Your dreams are nothing. Your excuses are nothing. Your fighting the good fight is nothing. Results are everything.

Why do we annually celebrate the fact that we are one year further from youth and one year closer to death?

Happiness is overrated. Be somebody. Be worth a damn. You won’t be as happy but you’ll matter, even if nobody else realizes it. Perhaps especially if nobody else realizes it.

When a girl asks for a bit of cash up front, we call her a whore. When she asks for a prenuptial agreement, we call her a gold digger. When she asks for half your worldly belongings, we call her a lady.

Conservatives today are no longer fiscally conservative. These days, most conservative fiscal theory is based on the absurd premise that you can balance your books by cutting taxes and hoping the magic budget fairy comes along and increases revenues somehow. That this has never happened in the history of the human race does not deter them.

Most roads have a smattering of smug, extra-safe drivers who go just a bit slower than the prevailing traffic, thereby provoking considerable (and perfectly justified) frustration among the less safe drivers behind, who in turn sometimes resort to dangerous manoeuvres to get by, which the extra-safe drivers then act shocked about.

People who have never been anywhere are often the most vocal about declaring which is the best place in the world.

There is exactly the same amount of evidence of Jesus Christ having existed as there is of Alice in Wonderland having existed, namely one book of apparent fiction that says so.

Good photography is usually either bland and commercially viable or interesting and unmarketable.

Conservatives talk about balancing budgets. Liberals do it.

There are photographers and there are camera buffs, with very little overlap between the two. Camera buffs sweat the specs and then buy expensive cameras that they admire too much to risk actually using. Photographers sweat the specs, too, and then grab the best camera they’ve got handy and shoot. If they damage their camera, they can always buy a pristine replacement from a camera buff.

I refuse to believe that the Lord God Almighty, creator of the universe and all within it, is such a petulant and insecure ass that he demands slavish and sycophantic bootlicking from all his creations, failing which he will torture them for eternity.

Most people focus on how precious and sacred life is, and they protect it so dearly that they forget to live it.

This is my time. Right now. Not yesterday and not tomorrow. These are the days that will define my life. There is nowhere I’d rather live. There is nothing I’d rather do. There is no one I’d rather be.

Reg Natarajan