The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.