In a sense [Joseph] Albers was an authoritarian teacher. He had rules about most things and very definite ideas.
I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.
Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.
Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?
Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.
I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently. "
As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.
Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too.
None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.
Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.
I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.