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

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

The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once.

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.

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

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.