April’s Reviews > Walkaway > Status Update

“If your ship goes down in the middle of the open water, you don't give up and sink. You tread water, clutch onto a spar, do something.
…Realistically speaking, if you're in the middle of the sea, you're a goner. But you tread water until you can't kick another stroke. Not because you're optimistic.”

“Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you're thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything invented after that is an abomination and should be banned.”

“That's why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it's all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay. Like the state was a business and citizenship was a loyalty program that rewarded you for your custom with roads and health care.“