Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.

It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

The sharp, superficial pain at being spoken to unkindly had obscured the deeper pain, which had not yet turned into something hard and heavy.

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

My ability to make up lies on the spot chills me as much as it saves me.

I felt the nauseous shiver in my stomach—everything from rage to empathy to morning sickness—that I had grown used to and now thought of as being love.

The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.

Email is the scourge of our age, ' said Silvia. 'Email and cancer.

I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life.

No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .

Love is a fearless force.

You will get what you wish to have.

Communist until you get rich. Feminist until you get married. Atheist until the airplane starts falling.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.

The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

I don't really know what that job [experimental philosopher] entails.

The journey is better than the inn".

Every time we have a mass murder we're gonna go to the memorial or we're gonna grade the president's performance at the memorial to determine whether or not we're being effective in dealing with it?