Everything looks good under great lighting, don't you know? The houseplant, this Tuesday, your rickety heart.

What do you think about people who quote others in their bio? Does it make them well read or less original? And why is our society so obsessed with being original?

Everything gets easier when you let go of the wistfulness, stop trying to have "original" thoughts, "original" feelings and make "original" art.

We want to believe love can be something that transcends the language by which things are bought and sold, but it’s more difficult than that. The rooms in which love takes place, the warm spaces that allow love to be performed, are made possible by the fact that money hasn’t run out yet. The point of how we retreat into one another is the fact that we have a place to go. So much of love is really just the privilege of being able to go inside away from the weather.

Showing up day in and day out, without fail, is the surest way to achieve lasting success.

I woke up very late and decided to be a human for a day. Astonishing plasticity of mood: feels like no feelings at all, or all at once. Or a dream that I decided to continue dreaming. I'm staring into the sun.