fake friends go with you to vegas.  true friends bust you out of internment camps.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

just because someone is witty and insightful regarding their own people does not make them so regarding other peoples, particularly if they see themselves in a hierarchy of human civilizations.

mark twain was such a curmudgeon, but I would have probably hung out with him anyway.

when young, no one wants you around because you're different.  when you're old, they only want you around because you're entertaining.

think outside the mosque.

to be held without judgment.