Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of the words that had come to mean nothing, but like the last breath of a drowning victim.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.