Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

I think there is a Paris inside us all.

I don't understand beauty.

The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.