Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.

Life isn't about plans it's about results.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.