I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

Innovative ideas are the golden wealth of a growing business

Remember, son, you're most afraid when you can think of no one but yourself.

Worthiness should not be defined by the whims of magic weapons. Rise, my son, and let the hammer be damned. Rise and remember the hero that you are.

Any fool can start a religion. And many do.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

The writing ethic was influenced - when you have to write every day, there's no such thing as writer's block.

Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken.

To be coordinated with the power of balance, your mind and your temple must be running parallel.

It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.