Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

What is possible and what is not possible is not objectively known but is, rather, a subjective belief on the part of the author and of the reader.

Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.