Loren

“I can think of no right more fundamental than the right to peacefully steward the contents of one's own consciousness.”
― Sam Harris

“The ad-hominem of reducing people with an inclination to help as having a “savior complex” is merely a display of their own defense-mechanisms acting as a resistance to action or responsibility. No thank you.”
― L. Spurlo

“An organism is not a collection of cells; it’s a function that tells cells how to behave. And this function is not implemented as some kind of supernatural thing, like some morphogenetic field, it is an emergent result of the interactions of each cell with each other cell.”
― Joscha Bach

“It's always seemed odd to me that nonfiction is defined, not by what it is, but by what it is not. It is not fiction. But then again, it is also not poetry, or technical writing or libretto. It's like defining classical music as nonjazz.”
― Philip Gerard, Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life