You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

Live while you live, when you're dead you're dead.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.