Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.

The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.

Try living forever with the metaprogram, 'Everything works out more perfectly than I plan it.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?