I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

There is a lot of willful incompetence in high altitude astronomy that is in the process of coming to light.

A father’s tears and fears are unseen, his love is unexpressed, but his care and protection remains as a pillar of strength throughout our lives.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.

One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.

Journalism has become the art of "intelligent anticipation of events."

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

I wish no living thing to suffer pain.

Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

It is so important to balance orthodoxy with orthopraxy.