"Creativity, no matter how elementally miniscule or broad in scope, is what differentiates human beings as superior to any material value, and also empowers the achievement of excellence beyond personal flaws."

"Money is a human invention."

"A poet's first contract is with truth."

"People, when cognizant, influence their personal growth and their environment by their will."

"There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism."

"The ability to do, to make, to generate and contribute is the essence of a human being."

"Recognition of one’s fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself."

"When confidence in the power to create is obscured, greed sets in, for greed is nothing but the loss of confidence in one’s own ability to create."

"Romantically speaking, the idea of lovers experiencing the ultimate orgasmic rapture while floating in zero gravity is a metaphor."

"When real intimacy occurs, any where, any how, it comes close to feeling we live forever, and we are not alone."

"I mean, after a certain age you figure out just because a button works doesn't mean you have to push it."

"Sex is as personally unique to individuals as it is universal."

"When the personal worth of individuals is calculated only in money, sense of self becomes confused with financial net worth."

"It's not surprising that the disconnection from real sex becomes unfulfilling."

"Eroticism means "caused by love." That is eroticism's meaning. (Erotic vs. porn) Real sex is erotic."

"As intelligent life that can impact a comet with total precision, send missions to Mars, and create beauty, art, dance, literature, and music, the greatest sex organ is the mind and my guess is there are orgasms awaiting us like none we have known before, provided we get there."

"Sex is communication and creation. In my novel, "Flight", two lovers have sex by becoming a forest and rain."

"We are at the helm of not only our own physicality but our environment and other species, too, as sentient, conscious beings who can think of future and affect consequence, and create progeny with our minds as well as our bodies."

"The etymological root of the word, sex, which originated around 1350 from the Middle English, sexus, means to divide."

"There is also something more [...] because as humans we possess, call it reason, spirit, consciousness, what ever, it's a numinous element beyond the perfunctory form following function."

"The view from space is described as life-changing...seeing Earth, our home planet, the jewel it is, a mass, a rock suspended in its neighborhood, our neighborhood, the universe."

"Sure, the sheer animal aspect of our physicality is an intrinsic component of what we are."

"Really, other one-pop variations of sex pale after it goes cosmic. And there is an abundance of fake or imitation sex around."

"Sex is powerful, it's procreative, it's a force that drives salmon to swim up stream defying rocky obstacles to thrash new forms into existence and, physiologically, the human body is also rigged with that drive that ensures the human race will continue."

"Working to get money is in fact backwards and has been twisted from the healthy human dynamic; one works toward a purpose of contribution and exchange and personal fulfillment."

"Experiencing that in general was curiously amazing."