How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves...
Do, said Louisa finally, whatever you can't not do.
Clocks measure arbitrary meters of time, but not its speed. Nobody knows if time is speeding up, or slowing down. Nobody knows what it is. How much time is there in a day? Not how many hours, minutes,...
But Ed Brubeck’s a guy, like Vinny’s a guy, and guys are all sperm-guns.
Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
If you could reason with religious people, there wouldn’t be any religious people.
[...] Senecas Warnung an Nero: Ganz gleich, wie viele von uns du tötest, dein Nachfolger wird nicht darunter sein
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
Your power stations, your cars, your creature comforts. Well, you lived too long. The bill’s due. Today.
When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its purpose, and Time itself shall come to an end.
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom
There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms, in the well-ordered swimming pools. You can see them jogging in the small, worn park...
The river’s vowels and the trees’ consonants speak a not-quite-foreign language.
The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.
So many things there are to know. Most things happen because of mistakes.
She'n'her bros at the school'ry'd made a new game, Zachry'n'Meronym on Mauna Kia, but Abbess say-soed 'em not to 'cos times are pretendin' can bend bein'. A whoah game it was, said Catkin, but I din't...
Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion. My fifth Declaration posits how, in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders...
Power is the ability to make someone do what they otherwise wouldn't, or deter them from doing what they otherwise would.
Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.