“the choices we make dictate the life we lead”

“We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.”

“It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances when you're not safe when you're not in the middle of the road...”

“There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang onto someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?”

“Life is easy. We make it hard.”

“You can’t plead tolerance for gays by saying that they’re just like everyone else. Tolerance is something we should extend to people who are not like everyone else.”

“What if we changed the story that has been peddled to us over thousands of years by those religions that want to control us, that this life is merely a stepping stone to something better or something worse, and that we can only achieve the better by passing through the doors of their institutions and following their rules? What if we trash this arcane story which has caused so much suffering and hostility, and accept that we have already arrived in heaven and that there is nothing more gorgeous than here and now?”