Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.