We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.
I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.
Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.