“The Mahayana stresses the ideal of the bodhisattva, who out of boundless compassion dedicates oneself to helping others. A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, "To hell, for that's where help is needed most."”

“In all the kingdom southward
From the center of the earth
Where is he who understands my Zen?
Should the master Kido himself appear
He wouldn't be worth a worn-out cent.”

“Where are you going?" he asked.

"To break someone's heart," I replied.”

“It is impossible to get help where it is most needed when any group is targeted for legal discrimination and stigma.”

“This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are…. and when I find you I am going to kill you.”

“When help is needed it is only God, Who has the real power to help, and He provides it.”

“When an evil masochist dies, does he go to hell, or would heaven be a better punishment?”

“Though not as bad as most, he was going through that stage where he knew everything worth knowing and nothing his elders said—particularly if it bore any vaguely education hue—was worth hearing. He could not help that. It went with the age.
And I was my age and could not help saying things I knew would do no good.”

“God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.”

“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.”