Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Blank pages inspire me with terror.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue.