That year’s mingled scent of burnt coffee, jet fuel, lavatory disinfectant. Dismal at the time, now you’d give anything to have it back.

There’s a term for designers using their practices to address critical societal issues: delusions of grandeur.

A man. A plan.
Diazepam.

Everything I’ve lost, I want back.
Except for the bad parts; those you can keep.

Manage to find someone willing to pay you for being some semblance of who you are, and you might survive.

The future hasn’t aged well.

The more complex the organism the more objectionable its putrefaction.

In the space of a few months your hair and clothing begin to fall awkwardly on you—or maybe you just begin to notice.

What differentiates man from animal: vulgarity.

He wanted things to add up, but they didn’t.
Some were less, and some were more.

Like many spiritual leaders, he had a far higher asshole quotient than one would have expected from his public persona.

As his senses aged and became less acute, they also became less convincing.

Do gorillas throw shit in the wild?

More often now he reached for words but found only word-shaped holes.

My note of condolence marked the beginning of the end of our friendship. Evidently grief over the loss of a cat doesn’t yield a permissible amount of insight into the the death of someone’s parent.

The film was an odd amalgam of ridiculously beautiful and just plain ridiculous. In places, I wept. When the credits began to roll, half the audience erupted in laughter.

He remembered the results of a study finding that over 50% of people you consider friends don’t reciprocate. Although in his case this was more or less irrelevant, he still found it depressing.