Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.