Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live our lives around a belief system that originated somewhere around the fourth or fifth century BC. I cannot see any more reason to base a belief system around Christianity, Judaism or Islam than I can around Lord of the Rings.