"Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room."

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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own."

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"A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it."

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

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"On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen."

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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

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"Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs."

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