Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.