“Take time to leave cities, at least once in a year, and go to some natural place, hills, sea, jungles, rivers, where you see nothing but nature His creations. Where you only hear chirping of birds,...”

“Fear is the worst enemy of sex. If a man is afraid of something he will start losing interest in sex. And, eventually he may become impotent.”

“Even love becomes pain if destiny has some other designs.”

“Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.”

“Whatever name civilizations give to the arrangement where a man lives with a woman, it is always better to call it a marriage.”

“Had the love been permanent, there wont have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there wont have been bad blood in the family.”

“Three hundred types of mussel, a third of the worlds total, live in the Smokies. Smokies mussels have terrific names, like purple wartyback, shiny pigtoe, and monkeyface pearlymussel. Unfortunately...”

“I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.”

“We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these...”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”