As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as we...
Most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week - and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Fo...
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
Ну почему именно мы? Ну почему, например, не индийский продавец риса, скажем, из Лахора, средних лет, вдобавок сифилитик и коллекционер беличьих чучел.
Мы делаем своих чад калеками на всю жизнь, умалчивая об одиночестве в его оттенках, полутонах и подоплеках. А вот когда бахнет по башке (обычно после того, как мы вылетаем из родного гнездышка), мы и...
Всё, что возникает за счёт денег, всегда возникает вспышкообразно.
Бывает, нападет хандра — кажется, так и помрешь одинокой; ни в настоящем, ни в будущем ничего хорошего не светит. Оглядываясь на прожитые годы, вспоминаешь только ошибки и неудачи, калеча тем самым и...
The universe is indeed a beautiful place. If you doubt me, go check for yourself.
The BIG issue nowadays is that on TV and in magazines, the images we see, while they appear surreal, really aren’t surrealistic, because they’re just random, and there’s no subconsciousness underneath...
[…] if sophistication is the ability to put a smile on one's existential desperation, then the fear of a glossy sheen is actually the fear that surface equals depth. ***[…] we wake up, we do something...
[...] it would have been an affront to all good souls who had worked for a better world over the millennia not to engineer a system for preserving finer thoughts after the millennium arrived and all i...
Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.
You see … I know nuclear warheads have a bum rap in our culture—radiation, nuclear winter, massive extinction, sad little doll heads lying in the gutter covered with bits of black muck. But to watch o...
You like all animals at that moment, although no doubt you will one day choose your favorites. Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures. You popped out of your mother’s belly, I...
You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
You could return to that same hive a thousand years later and there would be just the same perception of tomorrow as never being any different. Humans are completely different. We assume tomorrow is a...
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
With Jason I thought I'd finally played my cards right, and now I'm just one more of thosebroken, sad people out there, figuring out a year in advance where they can have Easter andChristmas dinner wi...
When I started researching this book, I thought that the Internet was a metaphor for life; now I think life is a metaphor for the Internet. I’m not trying to be cute. Just as it is impossible to point...
What's a bar bill but a surtax on reality?