-
“Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.”
Source : "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008. 
-
“Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.”
-
“The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.”
Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.2, Candlewick Press
-
“At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience.”
-
“A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception.”
-
“It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.”
-
“Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way.”
-
“The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.”
Source : Gail Godwin, Shannon Ravenel (1985). “The Best American short stories, 1985”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
