I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you.

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept a careful journal of the experience that was very helpful in terms of my sensory impressions of Africa. I have traveled quite a bit at distinct times in my life, though now that I have kids I've settled down.

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.