I don’t deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
Flying dreams mean that you’re doing the right thing with your life.
TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it’s about your voice. And finally the report, what you’re actually saying. And 99 times out of 100, it never gets past the hair.
Salad bars are like a restaurant’s lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
It’s just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it’s not quite the same thing.
You can’t get mad at weather because weather’s not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
You’ve seen what you’ve seen; you’ve felt what you’ve felt. Ideology is for people who don’t trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.
So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it’s all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
I don’t understand beauty.
Discussions of generations only go downhill. There’s no point in having them.
MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.
Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.
You can’t fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.
I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.
And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning’s will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
It’s never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.