"I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white."

“Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.”

“Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.”

“Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.”

Source : "David Chalmers on the Big Conundrum: Consciousness". Interview with Natasha Mitchell, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2003.

“There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.”

“I almost exclusively wear skinny jeans. I'm terrified of any other cut of denim.”

“I believe that God protected me. I've experienced many miracles. One day, my father was arrested as I stood nearby on the street. A total stranger who was pushing a baby carriage took my hand and put it on the handle of the carriage, as if I were her child. As soon as it was safe for me, she let me walk home.”

“A Big Wave is like a Beautiful Woman.....exciting to look at and thrilling to ride.”

“There's a wonderful author named Can Themba, who said that Africa extends a fraternal handshake to Shakespeare. That William Shakespeare would have recognized Elizabethan England more readily in Africa today than in England today.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com