Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

You can’t trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can’t trust you.

When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

Communism, ” I observed, “is a pile of wank.

All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!

Think about peace

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

I'm a decent sprinter and I can gun a motorcycle from zero to suicidal in less than ten seconds.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.