The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Expect poison from the standing water.

Dip him in the river who loves water.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.

He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have.

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

I hope it never becomes normal to feel scrutinized.

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India