I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.

The king dead is a living god.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile.

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

Boredom is only for boring people with no imagination.

"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.