That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living. Part Three: Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.

So much of what we said sounded crazy, yet none of it was false... as if two theoretical physicists stood on stage to say that when we travel near lightspeed, we get younger than nontravellers; that a mile of space next to the sun is differnt than a mile of space next to the earth because the sun-mile space is curved more than the the earth-mile. Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

One must first learn to fall if one would fly.