The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

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

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.