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

I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.

A drink this good deserves one's best posture.

I leaned in toward her, suddenly overwhelmed with the feeling that we must kiss.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.