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"It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light."
"Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it."
"The best way to make somebody feel important is to try to assassinate them."
"There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way."
"What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die."
"For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood."
"There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes."
"The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid."
"It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past."
"The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods."
"Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it."
"Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways."
"I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way."
"Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect."
"I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard."
"Everything's perverted in a different way."
"We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood."
"One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say."
"There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable."
"I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack."
