The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Fate can be one mean god at times.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.