Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

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.

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything.

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.