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

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.

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.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.

Mother Teresa did not became famous by caring just about herself

A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

Only God’s thoughts, or love, is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we’re actually not thinking at all: we’re hallucinating.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.