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

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

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.