Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.