There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.
I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it’s more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you’re touching around in the brain but the patient, she keeps jumping and saying, “Ow.
…It’s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.
The natural world is so adaptable. . . So adaptable you wonder what's natural.
Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.
. . . A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those. . . truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
It isn't necessary to seek out adventure. Opening to what is around you will produce the most extraordinary experiences.
Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.
I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.