I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

Horses have made civilization possible.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

We are defined by how we place our attention.

A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.