At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.

Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.

It’s our memories that teach us who we are.

Never leave home without your memories.

One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.

Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.

Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.

If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

It’s in our dreams that we pull people towards us.

I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.

We trust and rely on God at all times.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.

Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.

Girlfriend is such a stupid word. I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her 'wife.

In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure.

Chess is a time game, it’s a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.

You get a little stir crazy during the week.