We've just barely stopped being monkeys.

What you're saying is often less important than what you're feeling when you're saying it.

True healing is realizing you were never sick in the first place

That thing in you that you think is a demon is actually a bodyguard that's run amok

If you inquire into the hurt, you'll know what you're experiencing is love.

I love being a carbon molecule.

I don't wear armor. I don't carry weapons. An emperor needs only his imagination.

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight

A man's got to know his limitations.

Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.

This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality.

Well, what did I expect? S&M didn't stand for soft and mushy?

If you want to have more, you must become more.

Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.

Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.