I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.