I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

The highest creed is Universal Acceptance.

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.

Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating.

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.