‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

Love does make everything beautiful.

They want to cook you and eat you, " she said distatefully, "which is ridiculous. You'd taste terrible.""Thank you, grandmother.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.

I usually have to be home by 10 o'clock and my mom takes my computer away at 10.30pm every night.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

That which holds our attention determines our action.