It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do?

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 someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

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

All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

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.