Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

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