Why Science-Fiction Writers Are So Good at Predicting the Future| The Marginalian
“This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unc…| The Marginalian
“Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.”| The Marginalian
“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”| The Marginalian
“The mystery of being is a permanent mystery, at least given the present state of the human brain.”| The Marginalian
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”| The Marginalian
On love, liberty, and the pursuit of silence.| The Marginalian
Stumbling on happiness in pursuit of the unknown.| The Marginalian
“The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.”| The Marginalian
“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”| The Marginalian
“The wind won’t stop, but the house will hold.”| The Marginalian
“Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” Fantastic excerpt from a rare 1995 interview.| The Marginalian
A bittersweet remembrance of the great Stephen Jay Gould, or what Nabokov’s butterflies have to do with literature and living the American dream.| The Marginalian