We are not completely autonomous.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human?