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I suppose any form of art can be said to be propaganda for a state of mind. Inevitably, if you are creating a painting, or writing a story, you are making propaganda, in a sense, for the way that you feel, the way that you think, the way that you see the world. You are trying to express your own view of reality and existence, and that is inevitably going to be a political action—especially if your view of existence is too far removed from the mainstream view of existence. Which is how an awful lot of writers have gotten into terrible trouble in the past.

All our scientific observations of the universe and quanta can only, in the end, be observations of ourselves.

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.