Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t kn….

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live..

You're either on the bus or off the bus..

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychot….

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction..

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak..

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle..

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested..

Put your good where it will do the most!.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, ….

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaw….

What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. ….

Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols..

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a….

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imaginatio….

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physica….

[Aldous Huxley] compared the brain to a 'reducing valve'. In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, ….

a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a n….

Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus..

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness..

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a ….