When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.

As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.