Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.