Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue.

When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.