No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc."

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

What is China but a people and their stories?

I'm not used to be the adult. I'm not very good at being the adult. To some regard, I wanted to just hang out and joke around, like I would normally, but I had to try to find the movie to shoot.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence