Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

I think the language that we use in dealing with one another is very important. And even if I am called upon to bring out some money to support a regime, and I am entitled to say I do not like what that regime does and obviously I am not going to put money there - you cannot really say this is wrong or this is unreasonable.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose, and that we are not going to end here, we are going to proceed somewhere else, and also that we didn't begin here, that we began somewhere else and all that living, all that elaborate account of our presence seems to be quite basic to our nature and so this is what literacy taps into.