And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad jobthat he isn't worth discussing.

Whether someone is useful only matters if you value people by their use.

When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.

I don't want to find the secret. I'm afraid all the joy will go out of it if I find the secret.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.

You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

I know all the bad things that happened in that war. I was in uniform four years myself.

The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.