God save us from people who mean well.
I’m not a mouse or a tigress, she thought, I’m a hedgehog.
Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family they sometimes divide lakhs of rupees worth of property in a few minutes. But the tussle of their wives over the pots and pans in the common kitchen – that nearly causes bloodshed.
I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens – not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens – should talk about things that matter to them.
I think it’s possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
Put your backbone where your wishbone is.
Don’t put things off till it’s too late. You are the DJ of your fate.
I think if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above – Know that you aren’t alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
I’m not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person’s power. Be just to yourself.
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I’m not. I’m just obsessed with my work.