I do not believe in Belief.

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.

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?

Some of life’s best lessons are learned through our worst mistakes.

This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

The only reason we're not in Iran now is because we're going alphabetically and George Bush can't spell.

No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing.

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

I'm not people, I only eat them.