When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.