It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.