Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

I am happy to see you, Maso

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love.

A star doesn’t have to announce its arrival

God knows how to turn your helplessness into strength

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember—just lie.

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.