Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot.

Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.