I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

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

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

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again