Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!

We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.