“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!"

“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.”