Stepan Kuzmin

“It sees post-rock as an archipelago: islands that may speak different languages and are probably only on nodding terms with one another. But they are in the same sea. And that sea, the one ideological core that unites the major artists covered in this book, is deconstruction: a fierce desire to unpick and change predictable channels of expression.”
― Jeanette Leech, Fearless: The Making Of Post-Rock

“Stoic tranquility was a psychological state marked by the absence of negative emotions, such as grief, anger, and anxiety, and the presence of positive emotions, such as joy.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

“To live in a restless world requires a certain restlessness in oneself. So long as things continue to change, you must never fully cease exploring.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library