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Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. —MARY SHELLEY, FRANKENSTEIN
Stepping aboard a ship is an act of faith. You place your life in the hands of the captain and crew. You decide, actively or passively, to offer up your autonomy, and oftentimes that decision is not easily reversed.
Where there are gaps in our knowledge, we fill them with best-guess theories and philosophies of convenience.”
To stay loose and relaxed is to survive. That way you don’t crack and make a dangerous mistake.”
Looking up at these stars, we are experiencing the purest form of time travel. We’re standing here together looking back through millennia and we are experiencing ancient light.”
The only private spaces we have are inside our own minds. The thoughts we conceal from one another. From ourselves.
