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  • [menaces Susan by breaking bricks with his forehead]

    Chang: Black belt. Karate. Fifteen years.

    [Susan kicks him with her spiked shoe]

    Susan Morris: Ballet. Six months.

  • Chang: Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday, you build another fence around your minds.

  • Alexander P. 'Lovey' Lovett: We'd better make arrangements to get some porters immediately - some means of getting us back to civilization

    Chang: Are you so certain you are away from it?

  • Chang: There is a tribe of porters some 500 miles from here. That is our only contact with the outside world. Every now and again, depending on favorable weather of course, they make the journey.

    George Conway: How do we get in touch with them?

    Chang: Well, in that respect, you are exceedingly fortunate. We are expecting a shipment from them almost any time now.

    Barnard: Just want to do mean by, almost any time now?

    Chang: Well, we've been expecting this particular shipment for the past two years...

  • Chang: It is very common here to live to a very ripe old age. Climate, diet - the mountain water you might say. But we like to believe it's the absence of struggle in the way we live. In your countries, on the other hand, how often do you hear the expression, "He worried himself to death," or "This thing or that killed him"?

    Robert Conway: Oh, very often.

    Chang: And very true. Your lives are, as a rule, shorter. Not so much by natural death, as by indirect suicide.

  • Chang: You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking up at the top, some time.

  • Chang: We rule with moderate strictness and in return we are satisfied with moderate obedience. As a result, our people are moderately honest, moderately chaste and, somewhat more than, moderately happy.

  • Robert Conway: You have no disputes over women?

    Chang: Only very rarely. You see, it would not be considered good manners to take a woman that another man wanted.

    Robert Conway: Supposed somebody wanted her so badly that he didn't give a hang if it was good manners or not?

    Chang: Well, in that event, it would be good manners on the part of the other man to let him have her.

  • Chang: Miss Hughes! You are in the midst of life. Do not seek death; it will find you. But choose the road that makes death a fulfillment.

  • Chang: Like everyone else, you are on a pilgrimage thru life. By chance, part of your voyage of discovery, is here.

  • Chang: You who have written so much of better worlds, should think it a dream when you find one? Or, is it that you fail to recognize one of your own dreams when you see it?

  • John Rabe: Chang, what's the point in you having a head?

    Chang: So that it not rain into my neck.

    John Rabe: Quite right.

  • Chang: [in Thai] Why did you kill him?

    Choi Yan Lee: [in Thai] Because he murdered my daughter!

    Chang: [in Thai] You knew what your daughter was doing. Why didn't you stop her?

    Choi Yan Lee: [in Thai] How else was I to make ends meet? I have four daughters and no sons. What else was I supposed to do? Don't you understand? My daughter's just been murdered!

    [Chang silently approaches]

    Chang: [in Thai] This isn't about your dead daughter. It's about your three living daughters. This is to make sure you never forget them.

  • Chang: [in Thai] You can't see what is good for you.

    [takes hold of Byron]

    Chang: [in Thai] So it's better you don't see.

    [gouges Byron's eyes]

  • Maxine Faulk: What's this mess supposed to be?

    Chang: Soup.

    Maxine Faulk: Well, it's burnt!

    Maxine Faulk: [walks over to Chang, who is smoking marijuana] Chang... I've warned you before.

    Maxine Faulk: I don't allow this stuff on the premises, even if you're on vacation.

    Maxine Faulk: You remember the time you got it in the enchiladas?

  • Chang: Heaven isn't a place; heaven is perfection.

  • Chang: To fly as fast as thought to anywhere that is now - you begin by knowing that you have already arrived...

  • Chang: Perfect speed isn't moving fast at all; perfect speed is being there.

  • Chang: I've gone everywhere and everywhen I can think of...

  • Chang: I am a perfect expression of freedom, here and now.

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