Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

by Janna Levin

“The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has himself experienced them.”

But by god, to win this kind of a fight . . . that was winning. I like to win.”

“Whenever I held office I was always convinced that the office above me was an idiot and that I had the most important job. And as I moved up the ladder I found out there was always someone above me that was an idiot.”