Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Either you run the life

My friends are a crayola box. They highlight different colors of my being, representing different aspects of my personalty, I've noticed.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.