...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.