"The best paradise is the paradise we are exiled from."

“Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.”

“One is not a single self, although there is some common thread holding together disparate incarnations.”

“Ritual is intimately connected with the mask, either in the wearing that hides the true face, or in the adoption of a public face.”

“If chess is about decisive victory by vanquishing the enemy by taking the fight to the place where the king is located, weiqi is about consolidation of territory.”

“When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.”

“Since language is linear, whereas the unfolding of the universe takes place in a multitude of dimensions, language is limited in its ability to describe reality.”