There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

I'm only confrontational with my friends.