Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.