It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

If you can dream it up, you can team it up.

By deceiving Drona, Yudhishthira corrupts his teacher's relationship with the world. So do we every time we lie - we corrupt the 'other' in the same way.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

There is a mighty big difference between good sound reasons and reasons that sound good.

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

The cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast.

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.