I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

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 grace of service is heart of belonging.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count.

My family had liberal positions.

Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady.

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.