My ex ask me where I'm moving I said 'On to better things. '
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Only silence perfects silence.
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.
We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move there. If I was a billionaire I wouldn't want to move to a seastead, but if I was a member of the bottom billion, most of whom want to leave their dysfunctional governments, I might want to move to a seastead.