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.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.

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.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.

Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.

Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

I cringe when I watch myself on TV.

I thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there.

Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.