Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.

We have barely begun to tap into the genius of our humanity.

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

I'm a computer freak. I'm on the Internet every night. Sometimes I play dungeons and dragons with 15-year-old boys who think I'm a 15-year-old boy with a weird vocabulary.

The ideas are secondary to the primary premise of people's potential. I'm always in wonder and astonishment.

We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on the frontier and pushing back the wilderness. So when you start to talk about imagination, inner space, and the structures of the psyche, that becomes scary.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.