"Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity."

"Storytellers are a threat. They are subversive. They are dangerous. What we call information is not knowledge."

"The wise man does not say all that he knows."

"The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination among others."

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."