Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

The more things I threw away, the more I found.

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.