A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

you don't get to make withdrawals from the time bank. Only deposits.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction

We are educated. We can think. We have the freedom to think.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.