My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

That’s the beauty of magic. You can get it no matter how rich or poor you are.

I do not like the situation but will endure. It is only for awhile.

I've worked hard all my life.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

With Crucible, any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.

When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.