Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

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

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may burn brightly, and the faces of children may be plump and achingly sweet, but in the air we breathe, in the water we drink and in the food we share, there will always be darkness in this world.