You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

How do you eat your roots?

This world is out of date

I still hear the world spinning.

If we had more reliable systems of law and governance perhaps our friendship would be shallower.

Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.

Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans

This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.

It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful.

Without her, I couldn't live.

I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

I have a Siamese twin cat. It's got 2 heads and 18 lives.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

Steven [Sebring] just fell in with my family life. He helped me wash the dishes and play with the kids. I could tell that he was a person who understood families.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

It is necessary for the mind to become free of the illusions of this world and become a fine and marvelous instrument of the Inner Being.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.