You can’t find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.

Names are a symptom of a species which values the individual self above the collective good.’

Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity.

Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics. I thought about my speech at the Museum of Quadratic Equations.

In your mind, change the name of every day to Saturday. And change the name of work to play.

anarchy.

was the eyes, on Earth, that mattered. You saw the person, and the life inside them, if you saw the eyes.

And so they are lost, that is how I understand it. And that is why they invented art: books, music, films, plays, painting, sculpture. They invented them as bridges back to themselves, back to who they are.

So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode. Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.