The English word 'creativity' is derived from the Roman-Latin creo - to create. It is inextricably linked to the Western notion of a creator - a divine intervention and violent disrupter.

Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.

The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.

Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

I used to think I was a singer; I had my own delusions about it.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.