Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Assaile who will, the valiant attends.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.