While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads. When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are...they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded. We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.