“Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”
Variant: Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen
Source: Bleeding Edge (2013), p. 11
Source: Mind is a Myth (1987), Ch. 3: Not Knowing Is Your Natural State
Context: Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.
“Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”
Variant: Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen
Source: Bleeding Edge (2013), p. 11
Source: PTI Me and my family know the truth: Sania http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-04-03/news/27587127_1_siddiquis-pakistani-cricketer-shoaib-malik-sania-mirza, The Economic Times, 3 April 2010
“But if you think that life can be prolonged by the breath of mortal fame, yet when the slow time robs you of this too, then there awaits you but a second death.”
Quodsi putatis longius vitam trahi
mortalis aura nominis,
cum sera vobis rapiet hoc etiam dies
iam vos secunda mors manet.
Poem VII, lines 23-26; translation by W. V. Cooper
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
As quoted in D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers (1996) by Leo Hamalian, p. 93