Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.