Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.

The wound is the seed of wonder.

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

While their service is ending, our responsibility is just beginning!

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it.

A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.