First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.

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

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

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