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

Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

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.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.