“No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.”
“When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.”
“When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of an idea about the beginning, and although I do write the story one sentence at a time, when I'm thinking it up, I'm thinking it up all at once.”
“I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.”
“I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.”
“Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.”
“I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.”
“I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.”
“A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.”
“All culture must have arisen from cult.”