“When your income passes a certain point you lose touch. All of a sudden the other people look like geeks or gooks, expendables.”

"It isn't meant to be."
Earth Made of Glass (1998)

Source: A New Earth (2005)

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Chapter 1 Silence and Stillness

A New Earth (2005)
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Address at Columbia University (1991)
Context: Ibn Rushd's ideas were silenced in their time. And throughout the Muslim world today, progressive ideas are in retreat. Actually Existing Islam reigns supreme, and just as the recently destroyed "Actually Existing Socialism" of the Soviet terror-state was horrifically unlike the utopia of peace and equality of which democratic socialists have dreamed, so also is Actually Existing Islam a force to which I have never given in, to which I cannot submit.
There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 33
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

The Camelot Project interview (1996)
Context: When the legend is retold, it mirrors the reality of the time, and one can learn from studying how various authors have attempted to retell the story. I don't think we have an obligation to change it radically. I think that if we ever move too far from the basic story, we would lose something very precious. I don't, for instance, approve of fantasy that attempts to go back and rewrite the Middle Ages until it conforms to political correctness in the twentieth century. That removes all the benefit from reading the story. If you don't understand other people in their time and why they did what they did, then you don't understand your own past. And when you lose your past, you lose some potential for your own future.

Source: Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work, 1966, p. 199

"Till I Collapse"
2000s, The Eminem Show (2002)