One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.

It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.

I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.