I like the challenge. I like a good, meaty experience for me.

Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should.

Oh yeah, oohing and ahhing, that's how it always starts, but later there's the running and screaming.

It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.

He was a great man. And he was also me.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

I like a pickled cucumber. A regular cucumber I'm not so interested in.

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Life is a strange mixture of all of these genres, she mused, and it doesn’t have nearly as neat and happy an ending as you often get in books.

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself.