“The future is not a good place to start lying and cheating all over again.”

“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”

“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”

“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”

“Then all you can do is get lost in the tiny de­tails of ev­ery day do­ing the same tasks over and over.”

“With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.”

“Every day: Wear sunblock.Cover your gray.Do not go insane.Eat less fats and sugars.Do more sit-ups.Don’t start forgetting stuff.Trim the hair in your ears.Take calcium.Moisturize. Every day.Freeze in time to stay in one place forever.Do not get frigging old.”