Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
What else are we not knowing about, and when didn’t we know it.
I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
This saying is attributed to Burke, but see {596187} for a more accurate version.
Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true.
You always have those moments of standing outside your own life and thinking, 'This is kind of bizarre and quite wonderful.' And I think those moments always catch you off guard.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.