Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.

I managed my life to the point that at age 19 I was still in high school. I decided I was too old to be walking down those hallways.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.

It's important to remember that life is hectic and unpredictable.

There is no such thing as an optimum life.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

How do we fight back? By creating art.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.