I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Study yourself the way a hunter studied prey. Exploit your own weaknesses to create desired changes within yourself.

There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Laugh and the world laughs with you!

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

Tears are valuable, but when they touch the ground they are no more different than urine.

I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

Failure is not an option for me. Success is all I envision

I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.