And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

I needed to be myself and find my own identity.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.