You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.