Астрофизик Адам Франк сказал мне, что насчет квантовой механики важно помнить одно: несмотря на множество интерпретаций, включая копенгагенскую и гипотезу о множественности миров, сама по себе квантов...
Gaté gaté, para gaté, parasam gaté, boji sowa ka . . . These words are actually in some ancient Indian language71 and not even Japanese, but Jiko told me they means something like this: gone gone, gon...
You wonder about me.I wonder about you.Who are you and what are you doing?Are you in a New York subway car hanging from a strap, or soaking in your hot tub in Sunnyvale?Are you sunbathing on a sandy b...
When she had him along, the world looked different, and she liked the way she saw things she'd never seen before. . . But she noticed other things, too -- the way she herself felt acutely visible with...
She can hear the crazy thoughts that are going through your mind before you can even find them.
It's the cold fish dying in your stomach feeling. You try to forget about it, but as soon as you do, the fish starts flopping around under your heart and reminds you that something truly horrible is h...
If his medium had been words instead of war, he would have been a poet.
I've always though of writing as the opposite of suicide, she said. That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it.Like Scheherazade? Yes, she said. Spinning tales to...
I think it's important to have clearly defined goals in life, don't you? Especially if you don't have a lot of life left. Because if you don't have clear goals, you might run out of time, and when the...
Everybody has fishes in their stomach so does Jiko. But the biggest fish of all belonged to Haruki#1 and it was more like a whale. After she has become a nun, she learned how to open up her heart so t...
At first I was like, No way am I saying that, but when you hang out with people who are always being supergrateful and appreciating things and saying thank you, in the end it kind of rubs off, and one...
Nothing in the world is solid or real, because nothing is permanent, and all things---including trees and animals and pebbles and mountains and rivers and me and you---are just flowing through for the...
And my coffee is Blue Mountain and I drink it black, which is unusual for a teenage girl, but it's definitely the way good coffee should be drunk if you have any respect for the bitter beans.
There's the fact of her being a hundred and four years old. I keep saying that's her age, but actually I'm just guessing. We don't really know for sure how old she is, and she claims she doesn't remem...
I don’t believe I exist, and soon I won’t. I am a time being about to expire.