There are many things in this life one can plan for, anticipate, control, manipulate, but love is not one of them.

My emotions are invisible, untouchable—invincible even—and their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve life’s blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

If you let them kill you, they will

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

Kathy Griffin, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, they're all lefties.

A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Men will judge your past deeds by your last.

I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.

All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.