"Never say "NO" to yourself, just try. You will never know what could happen."

“He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.”

“Secularists argue that differences of religion were the chief cause of violence in our history - conveniently overlooking violent clashes of region, race, and class, not the least of which was the bloodiest war in history until that time, the Civil War.”

“There is no perfect spaghetti sauce. There are perfect spaghetti sauces.”

“We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.”

“After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.”

Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Bend in the River”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

“Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.”

“I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.”