Trash Panzer

“It cheers me to imagine that the air that once powered me could power others, to believe that the breath that enables me to engrave these words could one day flow through someone else’s body. I do not delude myself into thinking that this would be a way for me to live again, because I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily. The pattern that is me, the patterns that are the entire world in which I live, would be gone.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“I grew to really love the exquisite humiliation of auditioning. When you audition for a role, everything is organized around reminding you that you do not matter. It’s the best therapy I ever received.”
― John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

“success does not mean you cannot be tricked.”
― John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

“Normality is bullshit, and surrealist weirdness is a direct assault on the bullshit fortress.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories