Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.

There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.