What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

Those who hate rain hate life.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.