Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil, and its derivatives, because it's not going to be around forever.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.