“Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.”

“Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.”

“God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.”

“This is the twenty-first century - you have to know what you want, then set upon it with everything you've got.”

“Hadn't another wise man, the Buddha himself, warned about the evils of attachment?”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”