Andrea Benito

When I was more Middle Class I bought $10,000 mattress from Hästens. I had to pay about $1500 a month to pay off the mattress, and $500 in rent. Crazy? Not at all.

What a crazy experiment.

My grandfather put it to me this way: If a key opens lots of locks, then it’s a master key. But if a lock is opened by lots of keys, then it’s a bad lock.

Yeah, my friends who fascinate me the most are normally the crazy ones, the ones who burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Poetry is something like normal prose accelerated, and Kanye West is a poet.

Millions of people want to be in the NBA. But only 500 or so people each year have what it takes to be in the NBA. And you know what? Half those players are on the bench all the time. This is how everything works and odds are that you aren’t talented enough to make it as a writer, a top-tier surgeon or lawyer, entrepreneur, or whatever.

Women are generally smaller than men, requiring less food and smaller clothes, and therefore using up fewer of the world’s natural resources.

Height signifies, if not biological strength, then a glow of social supremacy.

Charles Darwin married his cousin. They had ten children. Albert Einstein married his cousin too. So did Jesse James and H.G Wells. And the list goes on and on — millions and millions of people marry their relatives. In a few Middle Eastern nations, marriage between cousins accounts for almost half of all marriages.