“It's Only After We've Lost Everything That We're Free To Do Anything.” - Chuck Palahniuk

“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes

Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.

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

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

"The last thing I want to do is develop media to get in the way of person-to person interchange because I think all communication should end with either a handshake or a kiss." - George C. Stoney

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Goethe

“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin

Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.

“We have to explore to survive. As soon as we have traces of life, if you don’t diversify your environment, if as a little bacteria you don’t jump to the next rock, you don’t give yourself the best chance to survive. Staying put means death. It is true physically, spiritually and intellectually.” - Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol, The SETI Institute

Photography by Linden Gledhill 

Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations. - Amnesty International  https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/corporate-accountability/

Illustration by John Holcraft

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.” - Joss Whedon

Photo by Dave Roth

“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/

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