“Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-buildi...”

“I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery eno...”

“You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?”

“Its kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.”

“Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.”

“Transcendence is transformation.”

“I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.”

“What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.”

“What I aim to do is not so much learn the names of the shreds of creation that flourish in this valley, but to keep myself open to their meanings, which is to try to impress myself at all times wit...”

“Pleasure brings pain, but inner silence brings nothing negative; it is in itself of great value and is a far better way to be than to be in ego states.”