It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.

Stop calling it a dream, its time to call it a plan, never relent kick-starting that plan, it will surely yield greatness

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.