"I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles."

“I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms.”

“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.”

“There can only be a relationship between human beings when we accept what is, not what should be.”

“Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.”

“If you think that you are less than them, can you blame them for thinking they are better?”

Source : Iain Lawrence (2002). “Ghost Boy”, p.331, Laurel Leaf

“You gotta learn your body, how clothes fit on you.”

Source : Interview with James Gaddy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

“My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem that sparks the ethical project lies in our limited responsiveness to one another. The only way we have to address that problem is through a representative, informed, and engaged conversation.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“The Roman arena was technically a level playing field. But on one side were the lions with all the weapons, and on the other the Christians with all the blood. That's not a level playing field. That's a slaughter. And so is putting people into the economy without equipping them with capital, while equipping a tiny handful of people with hundreds and thousands of times more than they can use.”