People tend to romanticise consciousness, as if it’s something spiritual. It’s just a word we use to describe complexity.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about there being another me sharing space in the universe. Would I even like myself?

You are so hot, ” I said.“How hot?” she asked, toying with the hem of the shirt.“Ionising radiation hot, ” I said. “Neutral pion decay hot.”Elena snorted. “You’re such a romantic, ” she said.

A person is not the same as a toaster.

We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.

I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

The PC is the LSD of the '90s.