It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE

Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

I'm not sure what I was good at as a kid. I was good at playing with Legos.

Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

It takes Rs. 10 per kms in Ahmedabad by auto- rickshaw, but it took us only Rs. 7 per kms to reach Mars.

Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay.

I'm the maknae. All my clothes are picked by my stylist because I don't have an eye for fashion.