“Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalisticin fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much...”

“You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.”

“It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it in scientific terms; on the other, we feel that we are the authors ...”

“Becoming sensitive to the background causes of one's thoughts and feelings canparadoxicallyallow for greater creative control over one's life. It is one thing to bicker with your wife because you a...”

“Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism.Many seem to have ab...”

“What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?”

“Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.”

“Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.”

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