If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

The map? I will first make it.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.