Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.