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

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine growing younger instead of older. Imagine feeling more powerful and more capable of falling in love with life every new day instead of being scared and sick and not knowing whether to stay under a sheet or venture forth into the cold.

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?