Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.