The less my hope, the hotter my love

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.

I strike terror among men, I can't be bothered by what they think.

Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?""I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts...

Life is, of course, terrible.

Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.