If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Begin to think of how you could maximize the time you have through hard work and through concentration.

We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?

It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

The best feeling in the world is to know that you belong to me and you are mine. Every morning that is all I need to know and that itself is enough for me to have a good day.

I don't understand how most pop stars live this life being told what to do, what to wear, all the time. Maybe money does mean more to some people.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

Don't walk in with a colonial mindset and say, "We know your problem and we're going to fix it."

If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.