Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
A jug fills drop by drop.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.