Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Steel screams when it's forged, it gasps when it's quenched. It creaks when it goes under load. I think even steel is scared, son.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.

Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one.

When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He’s a smart boy

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.