Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

I can’t wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.