We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters.