New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing.

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.