The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.

Purchased experiences don't count.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.