Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

You are a side effect, " Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

I come up with my jokes by thinking of a topic.

A relationship is sent by God and accident.

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.

My workout is my meditation.

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.