Chrysippus Quotes

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.

Grilled salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.

You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.

A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would be in living in the midst of good cheer, in the country of truffles, partridges, truffled turkeys, and so forth. "Alas!" replied with a sigh the sad gastronomer, "can one really live at all in a country where there is no fresh sea-fish?"

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

Wisdom and white hair might not be as valued [in our society] as in different cultures.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

It's so weird. I like shrimp. I will eat like a whole thing of shrimp. I'm a vegetarian, but that is the only thing that I will eat. So, I will eat and eat shrimp and, like, fries.

The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all Americans have learned to talk inoffensively, not enough have learned to think differently, nor act positively.

It's completely different, for instance, to report on poor farmers in Africa than it is to report on, say, poor African-Americans. The familiarity of my readers with the terrain, and their preconceptions, are quite different in those two cases, and their perspective, as I imagine it, has to be taken into account at every turn.

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.

In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.

The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, "You're not going to get recognized because all you're going to see is basically your forehead and eyes."