Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.