Love is keeping the promise anyway.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

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.

that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished from the planet and there will be no one to remember that any of us ever did anything. But this fact, strangely, does not delegitimize hope, because every now and again we find evidence that hope is helpful. This evidence, in my opinion, should be celebrated-even as we lament and fight the devastation.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.