“Don’t plant a seed just a day before you need the fruit. ~ Aarush Kashyap”

“Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties. Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept these postulates as your Faith, which will guide your actions and thoughts. It’s a top down way of thinking; start with the big picture and derive rules for living. Fundamental knowledge is static. Even the derived rules rarely change.Technos work from the bottom up. They build a baseline of observations and formulate theories to explain these phenomena. Nothing is sacred; with new observations, theories are discarded or modified to fit the facts.Technos and clerics; how could they not be in conflict?Dan Ronco’s Diary, 2016”

“I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on.”

“Denial. It’s the only thing that keeps most of us from losing our sanity.”

“I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.”

“My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.”

“Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you thatyou don’t pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.The same should apply to ballsy remarks.”

“People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them.”

“I think all artists struggle to represent the geometryof life in their own way, just like writers deal witharchetypes. There are only so many stories that you cantell, but an infinite number of storytellers.”

“Truth is irrelevant; what matters is what people believe.”

“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.”

“James felt as he always felt waiting to deliver this kind of news: like an emotional mugger, smashing into other people’s calm lives, leaving agony and loss behind. The aloofness of his role built his guilt, his distance from their pain. That he could introduce himself to people to deliver news that ruined them, with no wounds of his own to show in solidarity. He was the professional, like a doctor, slicing through their existence then going back to his own clean life.”

“I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid I’ll never get a chance to live!”