You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?