"The imagination is the goal of history. I see history as an effort to literally realise our collective dreams."
"Matter is not lacking in magic, matter is magic."
"The artist's role is to save mankind; anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. If the artist cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found."
"We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter and in the act of taking that idea to ourselves, we give everything away to somebody else, to something else."
"You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding."
"Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your intuition, rather than driving through it."
"There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules."
"I think we have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality. We're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable - nobody knows what's out there!"
"Who is to say what is real and what is not? 'Real' is a distinction of a naive mind. I think we're getting beyond that."
"Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves."
