I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

Life is short, death is forever

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.