A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

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

As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.