How to Stop Time

Places don’t matter to people any more. Places aren’t the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.

I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body.

I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body.

Ignorance changes over time. But it is always there, and it remains just as lethal

The progress of humanity seemed to be measured in the distance we placed between ourselves and nature.

(It doesn’t matter how long you live. Small talk remains equally complex.)

People only see what they have decided to see. I have learned this lesson one hundred times over, but it was still new to me then.

I felt the pain. It had come in and screamed through me, with mind-pulsing intensity. I had to exist, I realised, because for pain to be felt there must be a living presence – a me – to feel it. And there was a reassurance in that knowledge, that proof of my own reality.

Possibility is everything that has ever happened. The purpose of science is to find out where the limits of possibility end.

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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.