A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

Only the small things in life are important

That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.

A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.

Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?   'What does one do in America when one is sad - without alcohol?' asks Zwonimir.

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.

Morning birdsong filled the room. For all his high opinion of birds, privileged among God's creatures, still, deep in his heart, the Emperor did not trust them, just as he did not trust artists.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.

O God, how lovely still is life!

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

So many humans. So many colors.

Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!