Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

I did not need to know if he could love me. I needed to know if he could need me.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.