We live in the stories we tell ourselves. - Grant Morrison

"But where in all of this description is the essential chair? Have we yet come even close to a full description of it? Did we even mention that several hundred years ago, it wasn't a chair but a tree? Where is it now? Here? Or in memory.
We cannot even fully describe a chair and yet we say "I am." "I am...". Understand. There is no "I am." Nothing "is." Try to describe all that you are. Simultaneously discern the logical flaw in what I've just said. Now! Feel the white flame."

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

Self-awareness: there is the black worm in the apple. Our curse is to know there's something terribly wrong with us.