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Youth culture, once the bastion of anti-capitalism, has become capitalism’s greatest stronghold.

Harvard is a good school, we say. But based on what? Student test scores? So if you did well on your SATs you’re smart and so I want to go to school with you? That’s insane.

Writing is an encounter — between human flesh, words, grammar, ideas, affects, feelings.

Americans love to smile. It’s a veneer that glosses over the awful.

There is no deserve just as there is no reason. We go as we go.

Irony is that way of living that allows us to walk in the finite and the infinite at the same time, to be absolutely interested in the quotidian while being absolutely interested in the great indifferent cosmos.

Different parts of me are aging at different speeds.

While habit can be a beautiful way of going with the world, it can of course lead us to avoid life.

Life and ideas are different. But they are not opposed.