"To watch a horror movie is to know that something bad is going to happen. To have a body is really the same thing."

"Guts" by Julia Armfield

“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.“ — Robert Anton Wilson

“How embarrassing it is to be human.” — Kurt Vonnegut

Humans control the world because we are the only animal that can cooperate flexibly in large numbers

“We can't see our culture very well, because we see with it.”

— William Gibson

“The individual, his character, and his fate are for real. Each individual is different from every other individual who has ever lived or who will ever live. A human life is a dramatic and irreversible movement from birth to death, surrounded by mystery and overshadowed by chance.” — Roberto Mangabeira Unger, The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound

“Life is a humorous situation but it is not mocking us.”

— Trungpa, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior