“Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.”

If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.

I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me

Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.

A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.

Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.

Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.

It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

Love without evidence is stalking.

It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.

The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.

If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.

Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?

Animal intuitives can diagnose an animal’s physical health problems by listening to the animals.

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.

With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.

Each genre has its own process. I’m very intuitive about poetry. I usually write first and second drafts out by hand. The other end of the spectrum is journalism, which is much more cerebral, more thought-out and planned.

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.