Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

Gods have many faces.

When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

There are always possibilities.

Oh God Angel, " he whispered. "There's only one monster here." ~Sade~

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

Women are always angsting over things. Guys don’t do that.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.