When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.
When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.
India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.