What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

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

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.