Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.