I think as you grow up and you see things which are around you and you ask questions and you hear the answers, your situation becomes more and more of a puzzle. Now, why is it like this, why are things like this and since writing is one way in which one can ask this questions and try to find these answers, it seems to me a very natural thing to do, especially as it meant stories which I always found moving, almost unbearably necessary.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.