You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.
I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
The world is a strange and wonderful place.
The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
Art is about paying attention.
History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
All mathematicians share. . . a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them
I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
I feel like a semi-single mum.