Alex Shakar

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She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
- Alex Shakar
Collection: Stupidity
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With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.
- Alex Shakar
Collection: Community
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Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
- Alex Shakar
Collection: Childhood
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Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.
- Alex Shakar
Collection: Beautiful
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Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.
- Alex Shakar
Collection: Dog
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You need contradictions to make an ideal.
- Alex Shakar
Collection: Needs
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From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth.
- Alex Shakar
Collection: Deserve
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That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?
- Alex Shakar
Collection: Way