Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

You have the power to feel good—or not—just by being conscious of what you choose to think. Choose to focus on hope and healing.

In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified.

You must live your story.

And, as you know, the present moment is where ALL your power is. A reminder I need regularly. Maybe you too.

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

Boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.

I've got my fingers in many pies and I'm very excited about creating stuff and watching it blossom and bloom and harvest it and get on with the next thing.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing