As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

It's basically the same in all periods of societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.' 'And those troubling things are all you /can/ think about when you're one of the few.' 'That's about the size of it,' she said mournfully. 'But maybe, if you're in a situation like that, you learn to think for yourself.' 'Yes, but maybe what you end up thinking for yourself /about/ is all those troubling things.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.