The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

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.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

I studied ethnomusicology for a while, but I don't think that really influenced my music.

I'm not that conscious of my writing, so pacing the lyrics doesn't really enter the picture.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

Simultaneously the Left Opposition in the course of several years carried on a struggle against the Stalinists in favor of collectivization.

To feel estranged from language is to lose your own body.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.