"I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to teach us about ourselves but because they remind us, of we will let them, that there are other voices, other rhythms, other strivings and fulfillments than our own."

“The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.”

“When all hopes of recognition or honor have faded into distant memory, when purity of heart meets sorrow of mind, when all the world seems to walk in blindness and yet a man works without wearying for that which he loves...only in this moment is passion truly understood”

“The boundaries of "our universe" are not the boundaries of "the universe."”

Source : "Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything". Book by Ervin Laszlo, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2004.

“I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.”

“If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'”

“I laughed my way through The Stepford Wives.”

“Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.”

“The secret of charm is bullshit.”