happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its understanding.

creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.

Dreams are only the image of outward things shown on an inward mirror. But the mirror is the soul's enclosing darkness.

Anyone one loves is a potential enemy.

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

Resurrection means bodily life after ‘life after death,’ or, if you prefer, bodily life after the state of ‘death’

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.