The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfec

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

I may never be rich or famous but I've created a whole world, where anything I want is possible what more could anyone want to achieve?

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

For a long time, there was grief. It pulled me down into suffocating darkness, and kept me anchored there. I went through the motions. I turned up at school. I ate food and watched TV and took algebra tests. But I didn't feel anything. It was easier that

You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.

I miss you but can’t see you. So I go crazy.

As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in garbage; politics and corruption, in which Asha placed her hopes; and education.

In my experience, people who want to keep their painful injuries are using them as a crutch. They’re hiding from something.