I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

"Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas."

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

That's absolutely true, about the eight glasses a day. There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water. Most experts agree that unless there's something horribly wrong with you, you should just drink water whenever you're - get this - thirsty.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.