Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.

No need to queue up

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

Life's not about sitting at home in front of the TV waiting for your life to begin. Get out there and take some chances.

I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.