The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.