Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.

We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.