Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

Sing a song correctly and you live forever.

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.

A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.

If you tear open our heart, you will only see Rahul Gandhi...like Hanuman