The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions…. [W]hen the composition of the group is right—enough people with different perspectives running into one another...

None of us can know today if tomorrow morning we will not be counted as part of a group considered outside the law. In that moment the civilized veneer of life changes, as the state...

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

Doctors know nothing. Well. That’s kind of unfair. Let’s just say the world is unpredictable. Science is unreliable. It can’t tell you who you are or what you’ll want or how you’ll feel. All these...

History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more: like thought, like water, history is...

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige...

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change,...

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

,m./But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

How is it possible to write one’s autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?