What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

I am happy to see you, Maso

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love.

Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?

Try your best... Do your best... Sow the best and reap the best! The best is right in you... Don't hide it and give out the worst. We are looking right up to you!

We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.

Running away from love is never any good at all, to our sort. It only deepens the feeling, and it’s better to stay and wear it down.

Tori gazed out on the calm Ancific Ocean across which, incredibly, she would be taking a coach.

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

For months, the [Donald] Trump campaign denied full stop that anybody associated with their campaign had any ties with Russia or any contacts with Russia full stop.

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.