Quotes
Life is in the business of making its environment agreeable for life.
Life is a verb not a noun.
Life is a transforming flood that fills up empty containers and then spills out of them on its way to fill up more. The shape and number of vessels submerged by the flood doesn't make a bit of difference.
The great secret which life has kept from us is that once born, life is immortal. Once launched, it cannot be eradicated.
Telling the future is what organisms are for.
Life never falls, but never gets out of falling. It is poised in a persistent state of almost-fell.
"It works, why worry?" is life's deepest philosophy.
The nature of life is to delight in all possible loopholes. Every creature is in some way hacking a living by reinterpreting the rules.
We would know far more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to the close study of its contradictions instead of wasting so much time on similarities and connections, which should anyway, be self-explanatory.
p. 15
The only time we can talk about death is while we’re alive, not afterwards.
p. 22
The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done.
p. 61
No life is without its lies.
p. 172
