There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Madness in method, that's genius