Dad?""What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us."What should I be when I grow up?"The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest, " I finally say.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

I’ve learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.

[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Some people are born on third base.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

I think Hillary Clinton is vulnerable, she is not liked, she is not overwhelmingly popular.