Watts Quotes

“In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.”

“I don't understand how meat like you survived to adulthood.”

“Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. ”

“You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.”

“I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of "goo.”

“In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.”

“When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love.”

“The key to successful change is sensitivity towards that which is indigenous and, in the long run, diversity will always be more resilient than monoculture despite the current unsustainable trends in the opposite direction.”

“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”