Status Updates From The Sirens of Titan

“… I am writing this letter to tell you to calm down about the bad things and kind of look around and see if something good or something important anyway happened […]

You might just learn something when you’re in a mood to learn something. The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren’t and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.” 88, 89

“There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive?

The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks water from the springs of the bed.” 70

“You go up to a man and say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh, fine, fine—couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.” 66

There are like a ton of mentions of 67 and UNC in this book