To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?

Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes.

The secret of life is more life.

Do you want to know the secret of life? Bardo will tell you the secret of life: it's not the amount of time we have, despite what I've just said. No it's not quantity and it's not even quality. It's variety.

What's beautiful is that a creator can be astonished by his own creations.

For us humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down.

I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.