Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do...
Everybody knows that the soul of a cat is formed from the composite souls of nine debauched nuns who failed in their vows.
Within an hour we had a visit from a gentleman with shifty eyes and an interesting pattern of knife scars where his nose used to be,
Show me a quest for personal immortality and I'll show you a path through a slaughterhouse, and the incense of personal divinity is the stench of other people's corpses.
Coge un cuenco grande, dije. Llénalo con medidas iguales de hechos, fantasías, historia, mitología, ciencia, superstición, lógica y locura. Oscurece la mezcla con lágrimas amargas, aclárala con carcaj...
Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop," said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....
Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.
Men cannot come any closer to immortality without going insane.
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone hated.
The mind is a miser, he said. Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.
Alas, great is my sorrow. Your name is Ah Chen, and when you were born I was not truly pleased. I am a farmer, and a farmer needs strong sons to help with his work, but before a year had passed you ha...
Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.
Boy, just look at the soul shining through my eyes! It’s like a goddamned flower!
Immortality is only for the gods, he whispered. I wonder how they can stand it.
Ginseng hunters refer to the plant as chang-diang shen, the root of lightning, because it is believed that it appears only on the spot where a small mountain spring has been dried up by a lightning bo...
He actually seemed to want an answer, so I shrugged and said, A superior who inherited the job from an uncle rams a barge pole up his ass.
I have decided that the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.
I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.
I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may you...
I used to love history class. I can still quote whole passages by heart: When the emperor entered the Hall of Balming Virtue, a violent wind came from a dark corner, and out of it slithered a giant se...
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