Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, ‘I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have