"The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s been playing since the beginning of time, if you bend all the way down and put your ear to the ground to listen for it."

“Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna himself.”

“What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.”

“Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door”

Source : "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

“That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.”

“It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press

“I just need some time to get over all those years of having liked him”

“So far I've always kept my diet secret but now I might as well tell everyone what it is. Lots of grapefruit throughout the day and plenty of virile young men.”