The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

For what the Spirit sees becomes a truthAnd what the soul imagines is made a world

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.

Nobody has ever been beyond his own Illusion of Life.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

I have a second dog, too, mainly for security.

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and play dead.

I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.

When you respond to life, that's positive; when you react to life, that's negative.