ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'

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

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?

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.