Kids are natural scientists.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

I will survive!

Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.

Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?