If you know exactly what’s going to happen tomorrow, the voltage of that experience is immediately mitigated.
F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point sign...
Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you’resharing a reality that doesn’t exist.
And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.
Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll. I'm ready. My toaster will never be the boss of me. G...
…I have never understood the concept of infatuation. It has always been my understanding that being ‘infatuated’ with someone means you think you are in love, but you’re actually not; infatuation is (...
This is the difference between the fox and the hedgehog. Both creatures know that storytelling is everything, and that the only way modern people can understand history and politics is through the mac...
The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.
The Disco Group ABBA: They were beards and teeth and natural breasts and whiteness. I
Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticali...
It’s someone who views life as a game where the rules are poorly written and designed for abuse.
Its easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing with a monster.
It also creates a problematic reflection: If a villain is the person who knows the most and cares the least, then a hero is the person who cares too much without knowing anything. It makes every hero...
If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.
History is a creative process (or as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, a set of lies agreed upon). The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will ev...
I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as the sport of the future since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come...
We all convince ourselves of things like this- not necessarily about Say Anything, but about any fictionalized portrayals of romance that happen to hit us in the right place, at the right time.
Though I obviously have no proof of this, the one aspect of life that seems clear to me is that good people do whatever they believe is the right thing to do. Being virtuous is hard, not easy. The ide...
There is no alternative universe where Ralph Sampson is a beloved symbol of excellence. There’s no Philip K. Dick novel where he averages a career double-double and gets four rings. He could never be...