I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.

The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me.

It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.