Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications – those are the good words.

You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

I am, of comics I was never as big of a fan as I probably could have been I suppose but I'm definitely a fan of science fiction fantasy. My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

I don't really like myself, but I'm way into me, physically.

You want it? Work for it.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.