Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

If you can train your senses to perceive the movement of the minute hand of a clock, what is to stop you for training them to 'slow down' when you look at a tree or a puddle?

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

God, I swear I’ve never seen a more nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

As your temptations become greater, so does your ability to make responsible choices.

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Jesus modeled a purpose-driven life, and he taught others how to live it, too. That was the "work" that brought glory to God.