A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.

If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.