People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.