The indigenous population is not responsible [for rising HIV infection rates]. It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.
The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.
There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.
Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.
We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.
Have your cake and eat it. . . there's no other reason to have a cake
I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.
Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.
The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there's a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini.