We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

If you want to be strong, smile! He who can smile, even when he's so sad that he wants to die, when it's so painful that he wants to give it all up and run away, is the one who becomes strong.

This for me was home, and for the visitors, Kashmir".

It takes a lot more than ability to run fast; it takes the ability to keep coming back and coming back.

For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures.

Man is ruled by Earth. Earth is ruled by Heaven. Heaven is ruled by the Way. The Way is ruled by itself.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.

Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.