"Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true."

-- Edward Abbey

“Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that's where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind's directives.”
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
“We work because we have not seen the work of Christ.”
“Let's just say I believe in healthy love.”
“I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying you're sorry. But I didn't read that Mars-Venus book, so who knows.”
“Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.”
“People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.”

Source : "Attack of the Microbiologists" by Elizabeth Royte, www.nytimes.com. January 14, 1996.
“I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.”

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