The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

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.

And I, could I stand byAnd see you freeze, Without my right of frost, Death's privilege?

Justification of failure is the most powerful mechanism adopted by the mind to avoid the reflection of Self Failure

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

What could be a more Canadian way to indulge in the national preoccupation with perceptions - honest, hilarious, huffy or high-minded - of this country and its inhabitants?

Great men have big failures.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.