If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is sti… - Emily St. John Mandel

If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness.

You know the phrase I keep thinking about?" a poet asked, on a different panel, at a festival in Copenhagen. "'The chickens are coming home to roost.' Because it's never good chickens. It's never 'You've been a good person and now your chickens are coming home to roost.' It's never good chickens. It's always bad chickens.

It’s possible that no one who didn’t grow up in a small place can understand how beautiful this is, how the anonymity of city life feels like freedom.