Life works best when we think of people as people.

Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.