In this house, we believe...

Work is attention is prayer

The goal is not self improvement

Nothing worth doing is without risk

Having children or pets has no inherent moral valence

We don't live in order to live forever

Beauty has its own logic

Technology is not software, hardware, product, or code. It is applied science for practical utility.

Heartbreak is a blessing

Your insecurities are revealed by your attempts to conceal them

Your partner feels their desire through you

The purpose of art is to share

The purpose of innocence is to lose it

The purpose of cynicism is to claw back your innocence

The purpose of love is to learn to trust so deeply and to gain so much of a person's trust that when you're dying or they're dying, one person says that it will be okay, and the other person believes them

Language acquisition is overrated

Your deepest desire is not to be loved, but to fully love

Mercy before justice

Sweat before beauty

Better to eat plain food

Better to disappoint everyone than disappoint myself

Better to be good than interesting

Better to be interesting than popular

Better to love God than the Church

Better to love people than God

Contempt is reactionary

There is no progressive politics that is not relational

The optimal number of typos is not zero

Flirtation as a way of living

Imagination is ontologically distinct from planning

Mozart is overrated

Genius is not a useful concept for anyone who truly wants to be a genius

Either no one is guilty, or everyone is

Either nothing is a miracle, or everything is

Killing is inevitable, but there's no glory in it

Do not mourn the dead with murder or suicide

What you've done is what you've done

There are things more sacred than memory

Everybody time travels

Try to do something well

Don't get too attached to your social media profile

Wingspan is what an insect thinks of God

A bird can forget its name but never its song

Any feeling fully felt leads to love