If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Humans are almost always lonely.

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy