Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

I guess there's always a price to pay when you cheat fate.

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart.

She was the first woman in my life to convince me to fall in love with her.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.