Plato rarely if ever states anything about himself clearly.

Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.

Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

To Plato the desire for excessive and special foods ... is a hindrance to the soul's attainment of intelligence.

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

There is true freedom in letting go.

The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

What happens if someone else has my eyes, and they start looking at stuff I don't like? I don't like the idea of that.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

Flying was certainly formative for me; I have a deep and lasting ease with it as a result.

I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.