"For starters, it’s all one big world. Which means everyone is playing the same game and anyone’s actions have the ability to affect every other player in the game. It also involves very little war, moats, spaceships, wizards, mafiosos, or tapestries."
"Reverse Capgras Syndrome, in which you believe you are an impostor of yourself."
"The woman at the counter had hair like a backup dancer and was watching dolphins on the TV."
Dave Eggers
"The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt"
Dave Eggers
"and now it’s so hard to find a room unoccupied or not full of screaming clouds"
Dave Eggers (You Shall Know Our Velocity)
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
"The basic idea was to move an inflated pig’s bladder between neighboring villages, sometimes kicking it onto the balcony of an opponent’s church. The rest, with some help from enterprising people like Charles Goodyear, who developed vulcanized rubber, is history."
In our contemporary society ‘things of meaning’ can no longer be solely placed within the physical realm (Jon Stam)
