Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

At every level in our inventory, nothing seems special about our Earth, our Sun, our Galaxy, our Local Group. Evidently, mediocrity reigns throughout. Such is our niche in the Universe.

Given enough time, even evolution evolves.

Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.

Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.

Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

To heal would be to open the wound, examine it and forgive

I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

In the final measure, nothing speaks like deeds

A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.