It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.