Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man

...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

Namaste means that whatever is precious and beautiful in me honors whatever is precious and beautiful in you.

A beautiful country is a dream-like an illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

I didn't grow up in church. I had no concept of God - existence, I - the name Jesus was synonymous with tooth fairy and Santa Claus.