Even if it's a horrible venue - a bar that barely has a PA and no lighting - we're still there trying to get somebody to not forget us.
Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.
If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.
LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.
As we've learned on a logistical level, anything is possible in the 'This Is Us' world.
Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.
I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.
It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.
Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Above all, Jane Goodall continues to teach us that, as humans, we are no more entitled to our glorious planet than the chimps she so lovingly protects.
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
Forming communities - even and especially ones based on strong loyalties and allegiances - is in our DNA. It's what's kept us alive for millions of years.
Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
