Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps.

It's ironic that Olympic spectators will never have seen Yiannis Kouros, the greatest Greek athlete since Pheidippides

What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.

Its likely that a general pattern of behavior among threatened human societies is to become more blindered, rather than more focused on the crisis, as they fall.

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.

She scooted up tighter and kissed him, hearing the stomp and rhythm of lust pulse in her blood. A rhythm as primitive as time.

She kissed him tonight, just like she had the first time twelve years ago, with everything she had.

Good books often answer questions you didn't even know you wanted to ask

When I religiously confess myself to myself I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand.