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

Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

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

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

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.