The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.