Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it’s more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you’re touching around in the brain but the patient, she keeps jumping and saying, “Ow.

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.