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- Love is invisible moral value made manifest: the miracle of an idea brought into the fabric of biology.
- I cannot imagine a philosopher who is not somewhat ridiculous. Silliness seems to be a necessary counter-weight to profundity. Whether Shakespeare, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein — there is something Monty Pynthon-esc about the great thinkers.
- Science fiction is theology. When writers speculate about time, time travel, the manipulation of time-space: they are essentially describing the human desire to become God. Applied physics is ultimately the will-to-magic; the will to rule the universe by fiat.
- America has always been a Puritan utopia. The experiment continues in surprising ways.
- Suppression and domination: the mailed fists of governance.
- Ambulatory psychotics: there are plenty of them, walking around. As a rule of thumb: the sane and sober are a minority of the population.
