There is more than one kind of freedom, " said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

To want is to have a weakness.

The Agna, liberating instructions of the 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], purifies the mind. Knowledge of the Self [self realization] will give the mind, solutions in every circumstance.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

An artist is a person first.

I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention. It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war.

Remember that whatever you do or wherever you are, you are never alone.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.

Acting is always a challenge.

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.