I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.