The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible, a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Commercial fiction writing – where my bread is buttered – is fairly straightforward. The writing is simply efficiency and story. The more you have of one the less you need of the other.

Some girls had their heads in the clouds. My head was somewhere on the other side of the galaxy.

I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

All relationships are a reflection of our relationship to ourself.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

I'm starstruck everyday. The day I'm not starstruck, I'll have to retire.

The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.