Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

Normally if you're dating, you're looking for compatibility, and then the moment that there's incompatibility, you're like, "Well, swipe left on that, let's just keep looking." In some ways I think the same lessons apply to people that apply to objects. It's just much easier to see that lesson in things because they're these fixed intangible lumps of stuff. People are not. They can change.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

We have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to do, which is an incredibly depressing way of thinking about living your life. Not just that your work or your home life would be so miserable that you have to slather sugar on it, but then the sugar is all you're tasting. If that's the only way that I'm finding meaning, then we have this sort of mental diabetes that we're descending into.

Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.