What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.