I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.
Memory training is great psychedelic training.
Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you. . . Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.
The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.