I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

Salvation not shared, is salvation wasted.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.