Ironically your greatest spiritual asset is what appears to be your greatest obstacle: your obsession with yourself. Today we live in the age of individualism. – Richard Harvey

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

248. You will only have influence and power in the field of your gifts and talents

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

I'd sit on the coffee table and lip sync to 'Blue Christmas, ' 'I Can't Help Falling in Love, ' 'Love Me Tender, ' 'Don't Be Cruel' - some of the big hits like that.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.

I've always had my guard. I have my cook and my guard. I want to eat, and I want to live.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.