Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond once you lost it.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?

He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.