In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.

The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.