The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.