The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

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.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

I take friendship very seriously.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

... if I wanted to have a happy garden, I must ally myself with my soil; study and help it to the utmost, untiringly. .... Always, the soil must come first.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.