It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

I love people of all ethnicities, as long as they're not ugly.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide.

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid," She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

I'm always working on many new projects that I can't talk about because of NDA's.

And I can see Russia from my house.