Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women.

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.