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

On excitement

If this is the stuff dreams are made of
No wonder I feel like I'm floating on air 

- The Chameleons, Second Skin

True

It's true
you're lazy

- Luna, Lost In Space

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