Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

Most scary dreams bring something good which is not yet in a form the person can use.

I will not let you (or me) make me dishonest, insincere, emotionally tied-up or constricted, or artificially nice and social, if I can help it.

If there is something hauntingly beautiful or impressive in your dream, just honor it, respect it, recall it, sense it with your body. More will come.

Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.

You should never think without an image.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation.

Most opportunities are disguised as problems.

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

It's easier for opposition members to condemn the government at the drop of a hat if they don't understand.

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.

The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.