People will always choose more money over more sex

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them.