The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

Invest in yourself. You can afford it. Trust me.

A woman knows what it means to experience the world as her individual self. That gives her insight into her own reality.

A lot of the really great stuff fell between the tracks.

Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.

I'd rather see twenty thousand smiling faces than twenty thousand crying people.

Into the woods--you have to grope, But that's the way you learn to cope. Into the woods to find there's hope Of getting through the journey.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.