I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away (from the animal, our plate, our concern, ourselves) or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something

Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.