There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

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.

Nice enough?” he asked, tendons tightening in his neck like he intended to Hulk out on me. “Did you just call my kiss ‘nice enough’?

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

And if you cast down an idol, there's nothing left.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

So much in life came down to timing.

I own some bugs encased in lucite or something. I also have a big cat's eye - a fake one - made for a taxidermist. I really like animals.

I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.

Writers: believe! And go do the work . . .