“Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.”

Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero’s Journey.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

The god you worship is the one you’re capable of becoming.

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

Whatever the hell happens, say, ‘This is what I need.’

We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.

The funniest people are the saddest ones.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.

I think that I’m so psychotic and so mentally ill that if I could tap into that I could do something really interesting.

Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.

Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can’t ease.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.