Quality Tends To Fan Out

Cultures Are Not The Source Of All Morals, Only A Limited Set Of Morals. Cultures Can Be Graded And Judged Morally According To Their Contribution To The Evolution Of Life.

I Really Don't Mind Dying Because I Figure I Haven't Wasted This Life. Up Until My First Book Was Published I Had All This Potential, People Would Say, And I Screwed Up. After It, I Could Say: No, I Didn't Screw Up.

It's Paradoxical That Where People Are The Most Closely Crowded, In The Big Coastal Cities In The East And West, The Loneliness Is The Greatest... The Explanation, I Suppose, Is That The Physical Distance Between People Has Nothing To Do With Loneliness. It's Psychic Distance...

The More You Read, The More You Calm Down.

…the Doctrinal Differences Between Hinduism And Buddhism And Taoism Are Not Anywhere Near As Important As Doctrinal Differences Among Christianity And Islam And Judaism. Holy Wars Are Not Fought Over Them Because Verbalized Statements About Reality Are Never Presumed To Be Reality Itself.