We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century, Oliver said. Who isn't?
Time interacts with attention in funny ways.
Suicide feels like One Authentic Thing. Suicide feels like Meaning of Life. Suicide feels like having the Last Word. Suicide feels like stopping Time Forever. But of course this is all just delusion,...
It is not true, what I said before, because I hated him. He was the war criminal, and after the war they hanged him. I was so happy I wept for joy when I heard he was dead. Then I shave my head and to...
I write this in the moonlight, straining my ears to hear beyond the cold mechanical clock to the warm biological noises of the night, but my being is attuned only to one thing, the relentless rhythm o...
I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we...
I knew I was dead, even if my parents didn’t notice.
Приятно ми беше да съм по-полезна от един бастун.
We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves.
The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?
Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen, he said, without looking up. I
No writer, even the most proficient, could re-enact in words the flow of a life lived.
If you've ever tried to keep a diary, then you'll know that the problem of trying to write about the past really starts in the present: No matter how fast you write, you're always stuck in the and yo...
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ZAZEN First of all, you have to sit down, which you’re probably already doing. The traditional way is to sit on a zafu cushion on the floor with your legs crossed, but you can sit on...
I don't mind the risk, because the risk makes it more interesting
I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.
Do you have to live to be a hundred to really grow up?
Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way aro...
Death is certain. Life is always changing, like a puff of wind in the air, or a wave in the sea, or even a thought in the mind.
As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.