Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

Eternity bids thee to forget.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.

The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.