"No Need To Hurry. No Need To Sparkle. No Need To Be Anybody But Oneself.” - Virginia Woolf

“You deserve to take up space.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo

“From out there on the moon, politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say - Look at that, you son of bitch.” - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14

NASA photo of Mitchell getting lost on the moon, as we learned that our perceptions change out there!

“I don’t think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.” - Scott McCloud

Joan Fontaine reading comics.

“In the beginning, God said, the four dimensional diversions of an anti-symmetric second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light.” - Michio Kaku

“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony. But if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Bill Murray

Illustration by Dave Merrell

“Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible.” - Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician, Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/science/freeman-dyson-institute-for-advanced-study.html

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” - Chuck Palahniuk

Artwork by Neslon Makamo

“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

“If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle everyday to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them.” - Arundhati Roy

Photo by Luiz Vasconcelos.

“Don’t get too cosmic but we are just temporary blobs of atoms for the merest moment in infinite space!” - Russell Brand