“The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.”

“Social media is addictive precisely because it gives us something which the real world lacks: it gives us immediacy, direction, a sense of clarity and value as an individual.”

“It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”

“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And 'making sense' must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin. To make sense is to release the body from the constraints imposed by outworn ways of speaking, and hence to renew and rejuvenate one's felt awareness of the world. It is to make the senses wake up to where they are.”

“The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots in what they are.”

“Sensual pleasures are the whip natural selection uses to control us, to keep us in the thrall of its warped values system.”