Differentially Regulated Quotes & Sayings

And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade. — Terence McKenna

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump. — Willem Dafoe

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. — Edith Wharton

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture. — Willa Cather

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured. — Isabel Wilkerson

I was an outsider ... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up. — Elia Kazan

Until the Fed lets us have a real recession, as painful as that may be, we are never gonna have a recovery. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months. — Gregory Maguire

Truth is in all,
But love is all. — Sri Chinmoy

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt. — William Shakespeare