I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

It's wrong to flog a man. It's against his being a man.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.