Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.