Wisdom

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.

A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

If it's dive-bombing you from the air, bury yourself in the sand. It might lose sight of you. Also, no one likes to eat food covered in sand. No one.

The ark was like a portable computer hard drive and Noah was a one-man Geek Squad, and he dumped God's most important files onto it before he zorched the virus-ridden computer that was the world.

Little matters much and much doesn't matter at all.

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist ei.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

It is as though God said, 'You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

I kept returning to this new and bizarre question: is there anything that actually is as it seems? Is anything perceptually straightforward? Maybe that’s inherently impossible, because impressions are, by their very nature, cumulative – the sum of all your interactions with and perceptions of things.

Some people change their ways when they see the light others when they feel the heat.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.

May all beings be free of pretended happiness.May all beings find their deepest lie.May all beings see the nature of their inner turmoil.May all beings realize what they are not.And through this, may all beings become who they already are.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

Not only must the most privileged feel they are brothers and sisters of the most destitute, but the most destitute must feel as well that something within them makes them equal to the greatest sages and geniuses.

Time travel occurs in humans collective subconscious.

Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.