The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Science is the storytelling of our time.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

Be the embodiment of success

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.

For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.

The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.

You can't argue with stupidity.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.