Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

Don’t compare yourself with others. You are one of a kind!

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.