A kite only flies if it’s tethered.

In my country, when we think about the future, we shake.

Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.

If it’s not one god it’s another. Allah or oil. Jesus or Jewels. Lenin or lust.

Why ruin the present by talking about the past?

I believe in the goddess of mystery. And she’s always pregnant!

After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.

It’s only a cut, a reminder of this day. A reminder to ask every day, Why am I doing this?

The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don’t know who to fear. Isn’t that why god was invented?

To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.

With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals.

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.