There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

The word diva has a negative connotation.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

I think there's a gradient that goes from science to art and magic is the middle ground. I think that we're all trying to understand and define the world around us but often it's experimental.