Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

I'm back into fashion which is great! Because they do all the terrible work of production for me.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

We need to have an honest conversation about the policies that are generating opportunity and prosperity.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

Perhaps one day you'll look in the mirror and realize, the person you see appearing in awareness is actually awareness itself - momentarily appearing as a person.

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.