The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Taking care of your body is insurance for your soul.

Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

That you could fix me? What's more, that I could fix you? Well, Sorry, pet, I don't want to be fixed. - Caleb

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.