I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.