Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

Everything feels yes.

Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.

One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.

Drama is promised to everyone no matter how humble you are.

I believe the greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

If you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings

You believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]