Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing "the facts". We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the "evidence".

There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.