How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?
Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery
Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program
Why do most people think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?
At each stage. . . entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.
Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.
There are many more good stories about Jaye Davidson.