I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.