Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants

There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if they put down their swords and listened to their mothers.

I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds.

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.