“How much beauty is there in Dali’s Last Supper?”

“Empathy is all well and good; nevertheless, your being burned at the stake, no matter how richly you deserve it, feels different to me than my being burned.”

“The Beatles were true revolutionaries. They called for the overthrow of the existing social order, replacing it with… a secular version of Galilean Christianity.”

“There is no me or you until there is a we…we co-actualize.”

“For you, being is a spectator sport. But in our model the Block Universe evolves over time via a hierarchy of binary choices, so free will and agency are baked in.”

“We like to think ‘that could never happen to me’, but we can only think that if we know how it happened to someone else.”

“We don’t have many worlds; we have one world with incredibly many facets and one such facet is our ‘road taken’.”

“…’Two roads are diverging in a yellow wood’ sooner and more sharply than I had anticipated…I dread to go down either path.”

“TARDIS is an old fashioned phone booth (or ‘box’) with one very unusual feature: its interior is much larger than its exterior.”

“Wanting to leave the world a better place testifies to good intentions, but…it doesn’t cover the cost of a latte at Starbucks.”

“Parmenides was the world’s first Existentialist, the first to ‘split the atom’, to separate Existence from Essence.”

“[COVID-19] was the first virus to figure out in a major way how to escape immunity…”