Spontaneity has its time and its place.

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.

We don't choose our wildest dreams. They choose us.

All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.

If you say that you're a king, queen, god or goddess and you recognize that you're from ancestral greatness, you have to start living up to that. It's really just that simple.

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever.

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.