A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.