It's all about knowing the balance, because I like to remain somewhat of a mystery. You need to have that, you know what I mean?
I am a fantastic nurse. I discovered this about myself, and Im really fantastic about diagnosing things.
You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.
Demons are demons, and if you have them, you can either put them away, exorcize them, or carry them with you.
I'm wearing pajamas, every day, at work. It's the best thing, ever!
One thing I've discovered is that people in the military have a sense of purpose. They feel useful, and everything is laid out in front of them. What their job is, is very clear.
When you're in the military, especially if you serve, you leave in this heightened world of having adrenaline course through you, all the time. You get addicted to that because adrenaline is essentially a drug.
I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.
Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.