Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

"Reading is a way of living more lives than the one we have."

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Cities are a stage where life is played out.

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.