Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.