Book: Four

Therefore, there will always be a need for people who can draw mammoths, so that those who do not draw can see it - and they also become less scared. Because you can look at a fictitious, non-existent, but as if real. This is the whole miracle.

Drinking alone is a very dangerous undertaking. At first you like it. Relaxes, gives a feeling of permissiveness, smells like drunken freedom of loneliness. First time, second, third. And then it turns out that you spend more on it than you can afford. And you stop controlling yourself. You drink glass after glass without diluting it - ha, I'm a grown man, I'll drink it clean - and you don't notice how you go into a tailspin. How you cut yourself off from the whole world and look at everything through a drunken veil, and some kind of fun happens around, but this is not your fun, someone else's. Everything around is different. And then you are covered with thoughts. And there is no one around who could dispel them. So hang yourself for a short time.

A hundred years ago, believers needed God to explain the inexplicable. For physicists, this God is gravity. When we understand what it is, we ourselves will become gods.

Everything comes alive. Everything speaks. The dead rise from their graves at night, come to the living when they sleep, bend over the bed and whisper dreams to them. You cannot see it. Your eyes are not your eyes. Your ears are not your ears. Your heart is not your heart.