I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.