One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

Part of the potential of things is how they break