Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.
The best way to think of the ageing process in relation to a human face is to imagine a map of an area of innocent land which slowly becomes a city with many long and winding routes.
He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.
The most obvious, most absurdly recognizable phenomena in day-to-day life often become the hardest to remain consciously aware of.
The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.
Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.
In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.
When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.
Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later.
When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.
I have no interest in dying. But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.
It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body. Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
Human nature being what it was, the only time you could really be sure you weren’t being lied to was when you were talking to yourself.
I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.
To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer the birth pangs of the Soul-Mother of Humanity.
Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.
Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.
It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.
