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

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels on every lot, and no matter how often it tossed the dice you just knew it would never land on Go to Jail, it would be forever passing Go and collecting $200.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.