You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.