Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.

I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

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.

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