If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others...
Cat lovers display an intensity lacking — thank goodness — in most human relationships.
But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.
Before they had kids, if asked to conjure images of parenthood they would have said things like Reading in bed, and Giving a bath, and Running while holding the seat of a bicycle. Parenthood contains...
Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they w...
— Ты какой-то расстроенный. Что-нибудь не так? Мне хотелось сказать: Конечно, мне хотелось спросить: А разве что-нибудь так?
[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.
[...] I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life [...]
There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote , and also , which are both premium books.
The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.
No, I do not like music. (But what she really was trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.)
Mark had said it wasn't too late in life for happiness. When, in Julia's life, would it be late enough for honesty? It was amazing how little changed as everything changed. The conversation was contin...
JEWS HAVE SIX SENSESTouch, taste, sight, smell, hearing … memory. While Gentiles experience and process the world through the traditional senses, and use memory only as a second-order means of interpr...
Its so painful to think, and tell me what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever get me?
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at all.
In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.