I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

I have no desire to be a teenager again. I think that would be beyond nature in a very, very dangerous way. And, in fact, this goes back to the parables of Dorian Gray and Peter Pan about eternal youth. It’s disastrous. It’s incredibly toxic. Within our culture in general, there’s a lot of people [...]