The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just say the truth. For ten minutes. And then we can go back to being lame.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

I choose the labyrinth.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.