You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.