The drug ketamine, used as a 'dissociative' anesthetic, can produce subjective reports of conscious awareness outside the body, as can various other psychoactive drugs.

In the wind that ruffles through the treesI can find thoughts of you whispering to me

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Technology changes, but people stay the same.

We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.

Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

If God did not intend the cat to live happily with humankind, why is there a meow in the middle of the word 'hoMEOWner'?

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of something greater than yourself. And it is. But it's not supernatural.