Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Science grows like a weed every year.

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.