Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?