I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Salman Rushdie

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Deepak Chopra

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

Maurice Sendak

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

Mary Douglas

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

Joe Jonas

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Ignazio Silone

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Thornton Wilder

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

Joseph Brodsky

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Christopher Columbus

Common people do not pray; they only beg.

George Bernard Shaw

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Mark Twain

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

W.H. Auden