“Whether a life ends happily or sadly, what does it matter but the weight of the emotions one felt, the weight of the clarity of all meaningful moments one possessed while living on this Earth, whether they have been good or bad? Is it not the weight, in the end, that really makes us human after all?” LifeDeathHumanity Book:Toward Eternity Source: Toward Eternity
“I had wanted to know what it would be like to be human. I knew it now. It made me want to die.” DeathHumanity Book:Toward Eternity Source: Toward Eternity
“Was not every piece of music “4’33,” never a rendition sounding alike, with each element of chance affecting the dynamics, the receptions, the discovery of the music in the room? Was not the machinery of change as much part of the music as the musician?” Music4 33 Book:Toward Eternity Source: Toward Eternity
“Hope is a terrible thing. It makes you sink ever deeper into the darkness.” HopeDarkness Book:Toward Eternity Source: Toward Eternity
“Sometimes, it seemed like the authors were treating language like it was its own creature. A creature that fed, grew, died, and was reborn again. Language was not a tool to them, more like an occasionally useful parasite.” WritingLanguageParasite Book:Toward Eternity Source: Toward Eternity
“Psych is a mortal whom the god Eros falls in love with. She is given ambrosia on Mount Olympus and weds Eros as a god.” “I’ll be up for tenure in a few years. Does that count?” FunnyErosTenurePsychAmbrosiaMount Olympus Book:Toward Eternity Source: Toward Eternity