I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.