The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.