Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.
I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.
To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
Almost anyone you talk to will say, 'I don't want to die plugged into machines.
Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.
Very few of us are succeeding in giving our parents the ideal death.
Three-quarters of people say they want to die at home, but only a quarter of people actually do.
The pool was but a stone's throw from the house, and I arrived there in a few minutes, only to find a boy disturbing the water by dredging it with a worm. Him I lured away with a cake of chocolate. . . . Every day I see the head of the largest trout I ever hooked, but did not land.
I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.
I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirror—no longer young, the news—always of death, the dogs—rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling. . . . ("Seeing For a Moment")
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.