Playground: A Novel

“Aristotle said that happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”

“If two choices are impossible to choose between, it means they have equal merit. Either choice can have your belief. It doesn’t matter which you choose. You shed one chooser and grow into another.”

I found him there, reading a book called Gödel, Escher, Bach. I’d never heard of it. I later tracked it down and read it from cover to cover three times. It changed my life.

The world with all its bright and surprising contents was created out of boredom and emptiness. Everything started by holding still and waiting.