It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought

A lot of people fail to succeed in life because they see temporary negative situations as permanent conditions in their lives.

Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered.

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

The people rate strength before everything.

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

My heart and prayers go out to every individual

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.