“The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.”

The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It’s a creativity that creates everything that is a thing – it’s mighty powerful creativity.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

When you have something that brings a real emotion, that’s the power of cinema.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

There is an ocean of creativity within every human being.

Float with me in the world of ether.

The world is as you are.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.

I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Heartbreak can trigger childhood wounds.

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that’s vanished – the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.

You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.