“We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.”

“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”

“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. ”

“Invention leads to discovery.clothing is something that we invented so that in span of time we could discover it was of no use.”

“All that we have invented, the symbols in the church, the rituals, they are all put there by thought. Thought has invented these things. Invented the savior. Invented the temples of India and the contents of the temples. Thought has invented all these things called sacred. You cannot deny that. So thought in itself is not sacred. And when thought invents God, God is not sacred. So what is sacred? That can only be understood or happen when there is complete freedom, from fear, from sorrow, and when there is this sense of love and compassion with it's own intelligence. Then when the mind is utterly still, that which is sacred can take place.”

“Every ounce of breath we inhale is invention and every ounce of breath we exhale could be re-invention. ”