Alex Shakar quotes:

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

That's the problem with relationships," George was saying. "It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?

Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.

From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.

That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?