You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

Empty?! You took all the cookies!" "They were crying to get out of the jar... Cookies get claustrophobia too, you know!

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

I'd say she's get us both fired, but the I.S. doesn't let anyone go. Alive.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

[Confederate flag] it's a symbol of racial hatred.

[My work] is a love song to our mongrel selves.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.