"Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi."

“The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”

“The crime of loving is forgetting.”

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”

Source : Neil Jordan (1997). “Collected fiction of Neil Jordan”, Vintage Books USA

“Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.”

“Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.”

Source : Amy Hill Hearth (2012). “Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

“Democrats don't have a lot of time to turn the party around.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

“As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.”

“The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.”