I'm not paid to feel. Just fix."- Sydney Chang

I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.

There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurity of the vision. It is indeed illusion [mithyatva]

You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what’s happening on another planet, but not what’s going on inside the person next to you.

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

There's no need to fear, Underdog is here!