Am I, still?

And if you must go to work, tomorrow
Well if I were you, I wouldn't bother
For there are brighter sides to life
And I should know - because I've seen them
But not very often.

- The Smiths, Still Ill

All I want to do

Well I know five years is a long time
And that times change
But I think that you will find
People are basically the same

Though I think I still love you
All I want to do is see you
Don't you know that it's true?

- Depeche Mode, See You

On the importance of sleep

Upon awakening from dreamless sleep, we have the peculiar impression that for a while we were not there at all nor, as far as we are concerned, was the rest of the world. This everyday observation tells us vividly that consciousness can come and go, grow and shrink. Indeed, if we did not sleep, it might be hard to imagine that consciousness is not a given, but depends somehow on the way our brain is functioning.

- Giulio Tononi, An information integration theory of consciousness

On creationism

Irreducible complexity at the level of being supports causal simplicity at the level of narrative.

- H.P. Abbot Unnarratable Knowledge: The Difficulty of 

Understanding Evolution by Natural Selection

In D. Herman (ed.) Narrative Theory in the Cognitive Sciences

Once upon a time

It call comes down to simple mathematics: a really beautiful relationship is a once in a lifetime thing - and I've already had mine.

- Dexter, See Through

On healing

Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures.

- The Postal Service, Nothing Better

On integration

Thee ultimate aim of Pandrogeny was never merely physical. It was to be so integrated mentally that we would be able to find each other’s consciousness beyond thee body. And because consciousness is just a form of energy, we would be able to blend and truly becoum one.

- Genesis P-Orridge

Freedom

Freedom's just another word for one more way to get fucked.

- Dexter, Love American Style

Automaton

Automatic porn drug ritual.

- Pig Destroyer, The Bug

Victims

We are all victims of circumstance and biology.

- paraphrased from the film Side Effects

Oh, don't be so bloody melodramatic

I was in a fog
I didn't notice everything
Was coming all apart inside of me
There wasn't anyway for anyone to settle in
You made a slow disaster out of me
There's a radiant darkness upon us...

- The National, You Were A Kindness

Everyday

I still confide in you almost everyday,
even though you're not around,
how can that be in your solid state..?

- The Halo Benders, Virginia Reel Around The Fountain

Grace

Is there a powder to erase this?
Is it dissolvable and tasteless?
You can't imagine how I hate this.

- The National, Graceless

On wanting what you can't have

... and he wants another's eyes through which to see.

China Mieville - Iron Council

Alone

Found myself alone
alone above a raging sea
that stole the only girl I loved
and drowned her deep inside of me.

- The Cure, Just Like Heaven

It's gotta be that way

The sun is shining,
but it's raining down
it's gotta be that way
it's gotta be that way

The House Of Love - It's Gotta Be That Way 

Berlin

Berlin - a long garden party in the ruins of a baroque sepulchre.

- Iain M. Banks, The State Of The Art

Copenhagen

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is - physics concerns what we can say about nature.

- Niels Bohr

New

I feel so extraordinary,
something's got a hold on me,
I get this feeling I'm in motion,
a sudden sense of liberty...

 - New Order, True Faith

I just want to be

Fool enough to almost be it
and cool enough to not quite see it
and old enough to always feel this
always old, I'll always feel this

No more promise no more sorrow
no longer will I follow
can anybody hear me
I just want to be me
when I can, I will
try to understand
that when I can, I will...

- Smashing Pumpkins, Mayonaise