Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors… This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.

There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind.

By the way, I never realized that to be nonbelieving, to be an atheist, was a thing to be proud of. It went without saying as it were.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.

I was at Michael Jackson's house, and this kid runs out, 'Wait, save me!'

National security begins with border security. Foreign terrorists will not be able to strike America if they cannot get into our country.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

Where there is humility, there is no story.

The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use in my poems are the same as the letters I send into the miserable world.