Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

The dead are way more organized than the living.

Pretending I’m all grown-up seems like too much work. I’d rather just be me

Without the dark we'd never see the stars.

Smartass Disciple: My master, please show me how to be a wise man!Master of Stupidity: I can't. But I can show you how to do something wisely.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.