Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide.

It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world.

All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.

The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.

We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.

If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.

My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.