It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.