Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.