The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

[Sheehan] deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

More people should use their library.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.