“A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.”

“Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.”

“Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.”

“Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.”

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

“Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.”

“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...”