Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. It is as though the coolness that marked out youth is itself a type of retrovirus that can only leave you feeling empty. Full of holes.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

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.