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

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.

A kite only flies if it’s tethered.

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.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

I'm Elijah. You've heard of me?

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.

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