Art is an artificial organization of experience.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.