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My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.

Love from the abandoned heart of a nonexistent dog.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You are good," I say.
"No I'm not. I'm not I'm not. I'm not," she says. "I'm no good."
And then, softly to herself: "Am I?

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you
might even forget yourself.

You haven't experienced awkwardness until you've seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.

The only free man," he would say, "is one who doesn't work for anyone else.

Dog sighs are some form of distilled truth. What does he know? What do dogs know? Ed sighs like he knows the truth about me and he loves me anyway.

Sadness was the driver, the motor of his invention, the engine of his creativity.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.

Existence doesn't have more meaning in one direction than it does in any other.

It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be.

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

I CAN'T FORGET. I'M INCAPABLE. THAT MUST BE NICE, BEING ABLE TO FORGET. IS IT NICE?

On the worst days, I feel fine. On the best days, I know I am not.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

It's a staircase in a house built by the construction firm of Escher and Sons.

There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.

People are dying and my generation just does not care. Including me. But I want to care. I really want to. I want to care so bad.

If a lifetime in the end is remembered for a handful of days, this is one of them.

A life is about twenty-five thousand days, and a finding occurs about once every twenty-five thousand days.
In other news, once in a lifetime.

I have a hangover that feels like someone let a cat loose inside my face.

The strangest and hardest kind of time travel is the unaided kind.

All he ever knew of her was who he saw every day. All I am is who I am every day. All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.