Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.

Perception of a state is not the state.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.

We wanted to be free and owe this freedom to nobody.

As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.

Forget the dream. Stay real.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.