Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

Different creatures have different eyes. Human eyes (unlike, say, a cat's eyes, or an octopus's) are only made to see one version of reality at a time.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

You can either watch TV or you can make TV.

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribution.

A smile from an attractive woman at a bar very rarely ends up in any sort of sexual encounter. But a man is a fool not to push the suggestion as far as it will go, and he's that man.