The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.

When the audience isn't laughing, that doesn't mean that they're not fascinated.

You’re only limited by your lack of imagination and fear of appearing stupid.

If I don't have fun, it's my own damn fault.

If you're dumb enough to make me talk I'm smart enough to speak.

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.

Too often truth is doubted, while the error is believed.

They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else--the cold, and where he'd go in it--was outside, for a while anyway.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

I have an expression I say a lot: I'm in a hurry. There's suffering on this planet that is so easy to break through if the mind is open to doing so.

There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.