Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

When man to man shall be a friend and brother.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.

Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your heart, not your wallet. Write something you want to be remembered by.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.