"Private sincerity is a public welfare."

“To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.”

“Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.”

“War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]”

“I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.”

Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

“I'm always kind of in my head thinking.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.”

“In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.”

Source : John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

“Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.”

Source : Jim Stovall (2010). “A Christmas Snow”, p.56, Destiny Image Publishers