A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

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

Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.