It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.