“Defy the system by a gift to which it cannot respond except by its own death and its own collapse.”

“An organism exists in its environment in only one mode, that of an open system responding to those segments of its environment to which it is genetically programmed to respond or to which it has learned to respond.But a self must be placed in a world. It cannot not be placed. If it chooses by default not to be placed, then its placement is that of not choosing to be placed.”

“... we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.”

“Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.”

“But I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.”

“Bur I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.”