I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

Remember that time in the minivan, twenty minutes ago, when we didn't die?

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.