If two people are in love they can sleep on the blade of a knife.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

Education is not limited to any age

Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish

As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.