Ancient custom has the force of law.

That which is built upon the land goes with the land.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff.

No one should be twice punished for one crime.

The trodden path is the safest.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

It makes the idea of in sickness and in health that much more real to see it play out in front of you.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.