Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Wherever there is persuasion, there is rhetoric, and wherever there is rhetoric, there is meaning.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Stories are equipment for living.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Dignity belongs to the conquered.

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.

Imperfections create character.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

Love life more than the meaning of it?

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

On the wings of lies, man can only fly to the land of shame and lowness!