Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse
Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.
When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.
Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.
Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subculture' are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought.
The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.
I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
I am a messiah. Ask anyone on the Internet.
When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.
I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
