I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

my lungs sucked at being lungs.