“Don't write to sell, write to tell.”

“Be the kind of person who catches the shit before it hits the fan, not the one who scrapes it off afterwards.”

“Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.”

“If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.”

“Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.”

“You are so beautiful, I could eat you, he said.And it was true. Her smile was as intoxicating as the wine.And he could eat her.”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”