Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with..

Brains are no good if you don't use them..

It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolera….

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theo….

If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have imp….

This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of….

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sur….

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are dispos….

There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fo….

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant..

Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war..

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return..