"[The News] Is Like That Friend You Have — Who Always Sees The Worst In Everything. You Go Out For

“Don’t get too cosmic but we are just temporary blobs of atoms for the merest moment in infinite space!” - Russell Brand

“What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?” - Anonymous

“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony. But if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Bill Murray

Illustration by Dave Merrell

“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.” - Bill Hicks 

https://nerdist.com/bill-hickss-principles-of-comedy/

Photo: Alex Webb, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1982.

“In times of destruction, create something.” - Maxine Hong Kingston

Painting by Paul Davey. http://www.mattahan.com/

“Beyond that horizon lie parts of the universe that are too far away. There hasn’t been enough time in the 13.8 billion year history of the universe for their light to have reached us.” - Cosmos

Illustration by Julien Pacaud

“You experience it to be within your power to stop reading this paragraph. Apparently, you freely decided to continue. Perhaps you are curious how it will unfold. But you strongly sense that you could have done otherwise; you could have stopped reading (and you still can). However, from what we know about the laws of nature, it is not clear how the brain could control a neural process that would result in different outcomes when starting from the same brain state. It is also unclear how your interest in the contents of this paragraph led to the neural process that culminated in you reading it.” - Uri Maoz

Illustration by Paolo Uberti.

https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/

“Everything in the [media art industrial complex] is unusual. It’s like hot plasma. It changes so damn fast.” - Rene Pinnell

Artwork by Abu Bakarr Mansaray.

Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. - Steven Wright