George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.

Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.

Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities".

Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again.