I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

Try to acquire the weird practice of savoring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Then, when you have sucked out all the goodness to be gained from having made them, you can cheerfully forget them and go on to the next big opportunity.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.