“Butterflies are beautiful, but they can keep their flapping to themselves, thank you! We already have enough environmental catastrophe to contend with.”

“…then I am basically an automaton. I am carbon-based AI. I am the product of nature (inherited traits) and nurture (upbringing)…my parents’ mini-me.”

“…Whatever injects beauty into the world…fills it with truth…restores justice…is the Will of God. Whatever happens will be redeemed and whatever is redeemed is God’s Will.”

“The agony of childhood is only incidentally related to bad parenting. The Prince and the Pauper are, above all else, children, and childhood is exile.”

“There is broad consensus that loss of identity and a sense of belonging has played a huge role in the mental health crisis, especially among teenagers… I’d like to throw another log on that fire.”

“Contrary to universal public opinion, children do not play; they do not pretend; they do not make believe. They are!”

“Could it be that Robin’s Merry Men are really 'Mary' Men, devoted, like their leader, to the cult of the Blessed Virgin?”

‘The Zohar’ is a TOE (a theory of everything) - everything from Big Bang to Big Freeze, from Creation to Eschaton.

“Humanity had better hope there’s a God who is relevant, benevolent, concerned, engaged, eternal and omnipotent because otherwise…”

“God is Logos, the substructure of the world and of everything in it. God is what all things have in common. ”

“If we somehow manage to convince ourselves that the purpose of life is our own personal happiness, then we are in for a world of hurt.”

“Just as World War I made the world safe for democracy (not!), so the Enlightenment made the world safe from theology.”