Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.

I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.

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

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.