[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

I've never been baptised.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

But I'm gon' get mine more than I get got.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

Fear not because God is with you.

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.