Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.