Если тебе приходилось когда-нибудь вести дневник, ты знаешь — проблема с описанием прошлого скрывается в настоящем: даже если пишешь очень быстро, все равно вечно застреваешь в тогда и никогда не успе...
This is what temporial stuttering FEELS LIKE like a stut stut STUTTERY RUSHING FORWARD in TIME WITHOUT a MOMENT OR an INSTANT TO DISTINGUISH ONE INSTANCE from THE next GROWING EVER LOUDER AND LOUDER W...
She turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people’s business. Ruth was not unfamiliar wi...
When I stand on the edge of a tall place I feel like I'm on the edge of time, peering into forever. The question 'What if...?' rises up in my mind, and it's exciting because I know that in the next in...
Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye.Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate a...
One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first.
No hits is the mark of how deeply unfamous you are, because true freedom comes from being unknown.
Next you just relax and hold really still and concentrate on your breathing. You don’t have to make a big deal about it. It’s not like you’re thinking about breathing, but you’re not not thinking abou...
Maybe this is a good time to describe how old Jiko looks, because actually I was totally shocked that first day in the bath. You have to remember that she is a hundred and four years old, and if you’v...
It was the most ordinary thing in the world, but it felt like we were doing something illegal, lovers or something, because in Japan dads don't generally hug and kiss their kids. Don't ask me why. The...
In even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the w...
I was deep inside my mind, which is where I go when things get too intense.
I really like drumming. While I'm doing it, I am aware of the sixty-five moments that Jiko says are in the snap of a finger. I'm serious. When you're beating a drum, you can hear when the BOOM comes t...
I helped Jiko to her feet and we walked back to the bus stop together, holding hands again. I was still thinking about what she said about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave...
I don't give a shit about pretty, I informed her. I'm a superhero. Superheroes don't need pretty.
He's got this thing about Canada. He says it's like America only with health care and no guns, and you can live up to your potential there and not have to worry about what society thinks or about gett...
Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.
As I sat by my mother's side and held her hand and watched her, I remember thinking, It was comforting to know what I would look like. It made death a little less frightening, a little more intimate,...
Не знам дали някога си удрял барабан, но ако не си, на всяка цена трябва да опиташ, защото първо, много е приятно да удряш с все сила, и второ, звукът е невероятен.
We must keep up our studies even as civilization collapses around us.