Japhy Grant

“It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Touching the ultimate dimension is very important. The wave can live the life of a wave, but it can also do better. It can live every moment of its life deeply touching its nature of no-birth and no-death, that is, its nature as water. If the wave realizes that it is water, its fear disappears. It enjoys its rising and falling much more. Rising is joyful, and falling is, too.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment

“The fact is, their obsessions interlock. Each has half of a secret message. What else can he do but try to fit the halves together? And if they spin out, wake from the dream with nothing, what has he sacrificed but solitary waiting? Nick sits in his ancestors’ empty bedroom after midnight, reading by the lantern’s low glow.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory