On growing older

My body is a broken TV
Endlessly playing the flickering picture
Of the boy I used to be

- The Wave Pictures, Better To Be Loved

Closer to me, not closer to you (or so I thought)

And I held you closer
than anyone would ever get

- Death Cab For Cutie, We Looked Like Giants

On the futility of art

It's not worth it. There are giants out there. We do not matter. Someone can step on us without noticing. There is no point in making pretty picture. It's all been done, anyway. We are ants. The only thing that matters is looking after each other.

- Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief

On drinking

Isaac loves the crude sensation of alcohol buzzing in his brain: so much better than sophisticated drugware. The increasingly small part of his mind recognises it as a meme rather than a physical thing: thousand years of a culture of intoxication, worship of Bacchus built into his Oubliette-made body.

- Hannu Rajaniemi, The Quantum Thief

Damn

I've got one thing to say
Before I am drunk again
God damn the sun
God damn anyone
That says a kind word
God damn the sun
God damn the light it shines
And this world it shows
God damn the sun

- Swans, God Damn The Sun