I'm not sure why we romanticize 'young love,' or love in general...It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you.

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.

I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.