There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

I tried out the unfamiliar syllables. They fit. They cracked in my ears like a fist through ice.

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.

As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.