When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages.

I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.

I never break my journey at Deoli but i pass through as often as I can

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.