A Neurosis Defends Itself By Coming Up

The Measure Of (mental) Health Is Flexibility (not Comparison To Some 'norm'), The Freedom To Learn From Experience ... To Be Influenced By Reasonable Arguments ... And The Appeal To The Emotions ... And Especially The Freedom To Cease When Sated. The Essence Of Illness Is The Freezing Of Behavior Into Unalterable And Insatiable Patterns.

Self-awareness Is Probably Overrated. A Complex, Self-regulating System Doesn't Need It In Order To Be Successful, Or Even Smart.

I Would Normally Never Set Out To Write A Trilogy.

Science Fiction Is The Jazz Of Literature.

...where Were Answers To The Truly Deep Questions? Religion Promised Those, Though Always In Vague Terms, While Retreating From One Line In The Sand To The Next. Don't Look Past This Boundary, They Told Galileo, Then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, And Crick, Always Retreating With Great Dignity Before The Latest Scientific Advance, Then Drawing The Next Holy Perimeter At The Shadowy Rim Of Knowledge.