Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic.

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.

Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.

There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.