She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.

November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

You don't know what life is. You know nothing.

In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

I haven't met everyone from all different cultures, but I do know Aussies are very tough.

The problem with Christians is they aren't as good as Jesus. But thank God most Muslims are better than Muhammad.