It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girlsare always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Spiritual balance is to be straight with yourself.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Where there is Dharma there is no karma. So we have to lean on Dharmic values and we have to build a Dharmic family, we have to relate to that family and we have to relate to it deeply.

We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.