Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.

All you could do was hope for silence, for still air.

Life was complicated, I thought. Not just the living but dealing with the realities and the instinct for order that other people have, that I didn't always grasp.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!

Brahman is the ultimate reality

A dream conceived from the inside-out eventually becomes reality. But a dream desired from the outside-in is subject to spoil and tragedy.

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

Expecting anything, living frugally in surprise.

Well, you know, I don't think anyone who writes a television series has a master plan from the beginning, and knows all the character traits, and everything that's going to happen.

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.