Hinduism the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all religions.

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

When the individual feels, the community reels.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.