In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction

The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.

Every command slaps liberty in the face.

We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.

I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.

The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.