Mohammad Uyehara

“The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

“Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

“Please let us get back to a normal way of life, whatever it might be; these wars, revolutions, great historical upheavals might be exciting to men, but to women … Women felt nothing but boredom. She was positive that every woman would agree with her: they were tired of crying, bored to death by all these noble words and noble feelings!”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française