You need contradictions to make an ideal.

Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.

Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.