If you’re in Congress, don’t you have to be there sometimes?
If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is real, and that will make it real.
I see the hills look odd too. Not tectonic action, nor rain, nor riverbeds, nor glaciers, nor wind shaped these hills. They are uncanny. You can see something is different here, and it’s hard not to f...
He stood and walked to her. Beside her a bucket stood on the sand, filled with the little silver fish from the previous night. She gestured at the bucket, offering him some of the fish, and he saw tha...
Galileo did not want to agree. He never wanted to agree; agreeing was something other people did, with him, after they had disagreed.
But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.
But it could lead to trouble. Is a few minutes’ passion worth that? It is, it is. Believe me.
—I don’t know how I’ll be as a shaman. I’ll find out when I try it. You both know me. You’ve known me since before we even had names. I can’t travel in my dreams, or above the sky. There aren’t any sp...
Bubbles and Ponzi schemes and capitalism all have to keep growing or else they are in deep shit.
You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.
We were outside the world, we didn't even own things -- some clothes. . . . This arrangement resembles the prehistoric way to live, and it therefore feels right to us, because our brains recognize it...
We should do this more often, Charlotte lied. For sure, Larry lied back.
We pretend that democracy is real, and
We are all alone in our own life-world, flying through the universe at great speed. Humans are lucky not to face that. If they don’t.
We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one el...
This noisy black creature would be the start of it all: a horse startled, his eye round, scraped white around it, a white tear streak under the eye, also scraped. Mouth open as it whinnied in protest...
The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecra...
Slow is not the same as deficient. It's just slow. A glacier is slow too, but it gets there, and nothing stops it.
Self-reliance my ass. We’re fucking monkeys. It’s always about teamwork.
Saint George, a social terrarium in which the men think they are living in a Mormon polygamy, while the women consider it a lesbian world with a small percentage of male lesbians