Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

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.

Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.