It's compassion that makes gods of us.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.