A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Your dreams change. Initially the belly-buttons help establish the dreamer's predicament - the situation you are trapped in or held back by.

In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.

Historically, the rabbis are split on the question of dreams. None of them denied their power.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.

Dreams are at the foundation of all religions.

We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.

Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

When you finish reading a script and you realise that you didn't think of anything else, that you were just focusing on the script and were caught up in the story, then that's when I am amazed.

Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.

The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

It's very important to make the man believable so that you can stretch the fantasy. Whether people like this kind of Bond is another question.