In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth - it's about the redistribution of time.

All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.

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?