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"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."
"Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there."
"Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything."
"Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming."
"One day I realized that I really needed to stop losing myself in my work and in my addictions. What happens is you just wake up one morning and feel absolutely dead. You can't even drag your soul back into your body. You feel you have negated everything that is wonderful about life. When you have fallen that far, it feels like a miracle when you regain your love of life. That's when you can begin really looking for a relationship. When you can appreciate the whole concept of giving to someone, not just taking."
"If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive."
"And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through."
"The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want."
"I'm a born librarian with a sex drive."
"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."
"I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey."
"The end comes when the infinites arrive."
"I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously."
"Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues."
"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on."
"You can neither win nor lose if you don't run the race"
"Trust nothing but your own experience."
"Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties."
"It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me."
"For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that."