You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

Why was money worth everything when you had none of it, and nothing when you had too much?

The earth is round and flat at the same time. This is obvious. That it is round appears indisputable; that it is flat is our common experience, also indisputable. The globe does not supersede the map; the map does not distort the globe.

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

If you do wrestle with it and find the spring of its opening it will be a place to rest in all the days of your life.

Of course people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things, so there's no need to take it personally.