Eternity bids thee to forget.

It's bad for your brain not to unplug.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it.

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.