"I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general."

“Mistakes were mistakes, and failures were failures. Why torment someone with the memories of their past?”

“The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?”

“No, you don't get it, thats why I'm telling you. You think you get it, which isn't the same as actually getting it. Get it? (Kakashi)”

“Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.”

“The tears of God are the meaning of history”

Source : Nicholas Wolterstorff (1987). “Lament for a Son”, p.90, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.”

“The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.”

“When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy.”

Source : Chester Himes (2011). “The Crazy Kill”, p.158, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard