The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

You cannot not communicate.

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.

If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard

I needed to see you. And touch you. And just... know

Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives.

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.