Quotations

"Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them."

— Suzy Kassem, American writer, born 1975

"A Zen master said to a monk, "you must see the universe in your cup." The monk looked into his cup, but didn't see the universe there, so he threw the cup away. The Zen master said, oh, poor cup. We think the cup is too small to hold the universe. Intellectually, we can't see how it could fit. But wherever we go, the whole universe always appears—in a cup, in a window, in a smile, in a word."

— Dainin Katagiri, Japanese Zen roshi, born 1928

"What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality."

— Andy Kaufman, American comedian, born 1949

"Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away."

— Andy Kaufman, American comedian, born 1949

"The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice."

— Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author, born 1899

"I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love."

— Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author, born 1899

"The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night."

— Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author, born 1899

"Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever."

— Danny Kaye, American actor, born 1911

"I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF."

— Danny Kaye, American actor, born 1911

"Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!"

— Danny Kaye, American actor, born 1911

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."

— Danny Kaye, American actor, born 1911

"Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience."

— Elia Kazan, Turkish-American director, born 1909

"The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished."

— Elia Kazan, Turkish-American director, born 1909

"What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved."

— Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer, born 1883