One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.

It was always clear to me that I would have to earn my readers, some I would have to find, some to create.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.