“We struggle for freedom from the prisons others build for us, from the prisons we build for others, and from the prisons we build for ourselves.”

“Who knew that kids could be trained to put more pressure on themselves than any adult would dare?”

“…The ‘you-experience’ is the same for every human being…for every living thing…for every ‘actual entity’. Yet every entity is unique.”

“...The less you ‘know’, the less certainly wrong you are. You approach truth by shedding error. What can I unlearn today?”

“Can you help us choose the best ending for the Gospel of Mark?”

“Most of us study events and notice patterns, Joyce studied patterns and noticed events.”

“We imagine that there was nothing and then there was something. Impossible!”

“Patterns persist! More generally, 'pattern' per se persists.”

“Being is a game of hide-and-seek…Enjoy it now but know that no one will ever find you.”

“The philosopher never sees anything she likes…until she does; but when she does, she ceases to do the work of philosophy."

This is why I was never a track star in high school; I was the only kid running on a non-orientable race course.”

"So, God is not the concept by which we measure our misery; ideology is!"