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All you need is a [insert plant], some [insert stick / rock / animal feces], and a good multitool.

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. it must be allowed to decay.

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful _x000D_ and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too. On the _x000D_ other hand, hatred, jealousy and fear upset our peace of mind, make _x000D_ us agitated and affect our body adversely. Even our body needs peace _x000D_ of mind and is not suited to agitation. This shows that an _x000D_ appreciation for peace of mind is in our blood.

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Sometimes an ember is all we need.