Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

Whoever holds the keys to house of knowledge, must open the door, for those who search for light of knowledge to enter.

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man’s sleep.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

Sourav's greatest strength is his mind. He is hardworking - not only in the nets but also mentally. He bounces back.

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.