In order to acheive you must dream, to dream you must desire, to desire you must love.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

My happiness  is not by chance but by choice

everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows.

Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

The problem with 'the crown jewel of Chinese literature' [Dream of the Red Chamber] is that it has two thousand pages and an equal number of characters, and the hero is an effeminate ass who should have either been spanked or decapitated, both ends being equally objectionable.

Barry Hughart

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