Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

Be as humble as you need to convince people that you are not Jesus.

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

A radical is he who has no sense...fights without reason...I have a reason. I am authentic. Yes, that's what I am.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

Your dreams must be bigger than your fear. Embrace all opportunities and be all you are destined to be.