“Is this Tree of Life a God one could worship? Pray to? Fear? Probably not. But it did make the ivy twine and the sky so blue, so perhaps the song I love tells a truth after all. The Tree of Life is...”

“The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”

“Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.”

“Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.”

“Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.”

“Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me. And I dont know if he wrote it or not, but the headline in ...”

“Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreedinga conical mass of threads, expanding into the ...”

“Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be r...”

“The black thing in her brain and the dark water on the page were the same thing, a form of knowledge. This is how myths work. They are things, creatures, stories, inhabiting the mind. They cannot b...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”