I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!

Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.

The day you call someone "Mother" is the day your pain is hers to bear, you burden hers to carry.

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement.