Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.

Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, " said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....

The courage of one can change the course of all.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

You know my friends with what a brave carouse I made a second marriage in my house Divorced old barren reason from my bed And took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

I don't think success is harmful as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.