“A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.”

At a concert, commenting to the audience about The Used's song "Burning in the Aftermath", reported in Jason Newell (July 8, 2003) "Teens chill at hot concert", Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.

Session 612, p. 3
The Nature of Personal Reality (1974)

&quot;When The Rain Came Down&quot; (bonus track on 1992 CD) - Live performance at The Tin Angel, Philadelphia, PA (9 May 1996) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzcMmfGBjY - Visually enhanced fan video of same performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz8S31vlw8Q &lt;!-- at some points this sounds more like: I am Peace, in love, in harmony… --&gt; <br class="br">Ecto (1987) <br class="br">Context: When the rain came down, I was older than the earth.<br>I could die right now, and plan another birth<br>Anytime I choose.<br>I am in peace, in love, in harmony,<br>when the rain comes

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)

Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)

CBC Ideas Interview (podcast) (September 25, 2006)

as the ghost Dariat lies immobile in a wispy limbo
The Night's Dawn Trilogy (1996-1999), The Naked God (1999)

Letter to Katherine Wright, 18 October 1900; as published in Marvin W. McFarland, ed., The Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953), vol. 1, p. 37.