I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

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.

My heart can feel the softness of a starOnly when the moon stays afar I lay my mind on the pillow of skyWhere sleep dares not ever to pry

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain.

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.

Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.

My greatest joy is just to be alive!