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.

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

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

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.