The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

Dying men think of funny things--and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men?

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions--if there's any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations.

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.