Money to a writer is time to write.

Law is the ultimate science.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

The universe does not work by our rules

Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.