If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It’s why publishers don’t worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.
Thinking you’re immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.
Too much free time is certainly a monkey’s paw in disguise. Most people can’t handle a structureless life.
You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.
Nobody believes the identities we’ve made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now – as though people had true cores once, but tucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.
Your body isn’t just a body. It’s an ecosystem.
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
When we constantly ask for miracles, we’re unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn’t really like people very much?
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
We’re rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
Sometimes failure isn’t an opportunity in disguise, it’s just you.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
We are changed souls; we don’t look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.