What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.

We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.

Everything in life is just for a while.

I have seen myself backward.

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.