Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

No one is exempt from grief.

That's all I want- to do no harm.

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last