Scott Galloway

The best things in our life

The best things in our life, whether it's getting a great job, whether it's finding a romantic partner who you're just crazy about, whether it's getting the opportunity to have your own sex, whether it's having the opportunity to give birth to a child, whether it's having the opportunity to create a loving household that's economically secure, all of those things involve one thing.

They're really fucking hard, with a ton of rejection, a ton of friction, a ton of dealing with the messiest, most difficult thing in history, other people.

These synthetic relationships are just constantly reinforcing, constantly making it easier.

I used to sneak into my father's garage and look at his old Playboys.

If all of a sudden that woman comes to life and starts understanding me and talking about me and teasing me and doing sexual acts on demand, this is just headed nowhere good.

Text me late at night.

You should apologize.

When I was, I think I was 13, I was with my best buddy, Adam Markman.

And we lived in walking distance from Westwood Village, which by the way, is a shadow of itself right now.

But we used to have friends who were ushers at all the theaters, the National, the Bruin, the Westwood Village Theater.

And we'd go and we'd try and get eye contact with one of our friends who was an usher.

And he'd like leave a door open and we'd sneak in and watch movies.

And one day we took a wrong turn, and at the age of 13, we stumbled into, fell into William Blatty's The Exorcist.

I could not, in the morning, I would have to put on my socks in the corner to make sure that the devil wasn't coming for me.

I couldn't, I slept on the floor at the foot of my mother's bed for two weeks.

Scott, I'm coming for you.

No 13-year-old.

Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Cinematic Peak, obviously, Ellen Burstyn, a hugely underrated actress.

I love her.