When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.