"Do not spit into the well, you'll get drunk"

“The cry of "Make America Great Again" reflects accurately that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the sole superpower status of the United States is coming to an end. For the first time since the second World War, we are not the sole dominant economy in the world. In large part this is because of the success of policies followed by the United States to create an environment, a peaceful period in history in which economies could grow and countries could benefit.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com

“The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.”

“Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.”

“Something I am wondering: if you cannot hear do you have no sounds in your head? Do you see a silent movie”

“The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

“I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I'm going to be. But, thank God, I'm not what I was!”

“It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.”

Source : Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.