Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.