The brain is a soupy lightning storm swirling and…

“You know you're having a seriously fucked-up day when ontology becomes a life-or-death proposition”

— Elan Mastai

“The truth is, there are no alternate realities. At least not the way Penny describes them. Maybe an infinite multiverse is born from every…

— Elan Mastai

“When you’re young, you think of your parents with the simplest adjectives. As you get older, you add more adjectives and notice some of…

— Elan Mastai

“They were married within a year and slotted themselves into their respective lifelong roles—my father was the lighthouse, my mother the keeper who wound…

— Elan Mastai

“When you jump off a cliff, falling can look a whole lot like flying, for a while anyway.”

— Elan Mastai

“Anyone can overthrow a government. It’s ruling that’s hard.”

— Elan Mastai

“You got a little bit famous. Even a little bit of fame can mess with your head. It’s a cognitive disease, you know, fame?…

— Elan Mastai

“You keep working. You keep trying. You keep failing. Until one day in the distant future, that for me is the distant past, the…

— Elan Mastai

“She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and no she's gone.”

— Elan Mastai

“When you invent the car, you also invent the car accident. When you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash.”

— Elan Mastai

“But there was something else, hard to pin down exactly, a charge—this magnetic pheromonal buzz that hung between us like a spider’s web, generally…

— Elan Mastai

“But the world feels too big and the words feel too small, and turning the slushy tangle of memories into clean lines of text…

— Elan Mastai

“You believe what you do.”

— Elan Mastai

“When someone dies they get very cold and very still. That probably sounds obvious, but when it’s your mother it doesn’t feel obvious—it feels…

— Elan Mastai

“Most of life is defined by how you handle failure.”

— Elan Mastai