We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

All you do out of selfish reasons is a waste

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.