If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.