“But there is no consensus [...] on how a particle “chooses” which of its many possible futures to follow, nor even on whether it really does choose or instead spins off like a branching tributary to live out all possible futures in an ever-expanding arena of parallel universes.”
“You must have chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”
“Youth the penny that bought delight of the moon.”
“Fear is an echo we traced to Security’s daughter…”
“The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last - the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.”
“Women are Christian motorcycle dykes, militantly hetero Muslim theological scholars, Jewish-Chinese bisexual macrobiotic ballerinas and Chippewa shawomen who fuck not just lovers, but Time and Silence too.”