Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast
inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.
Death never gave meaning to life: it was always the other way round.
Is a stranger in a crowd less than human, just because you can’t witness her inner life?
All we can ever know about are the portraits of each other inside our own skulls.
I said, ‘The truth is whatever you can get away with.’ ‘No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.
Order my life. I’m nothing without you: fragments of time, fragments of words, fragments of feelings. Make sense of me. Make me whole.
Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice.