For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.