"Death is the road to awe."

“Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.”

“To have a style is to be stuck.”

“No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.”

“One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.”

“The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.”

Source : Vijay Prashad (2001). “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity”

“I do that a lot of authors still do not do is allow people to write directly to me. I get about 50 fan letters a day, and I answer every single one of them myself. It takes a lot of time and sometimes it's a pain in the neck and I answer the same questions over and over. But the truth is these people come to my readings clutching these letters saying, "You wrote me back. I can't believe you wrote me back", and I think it really means a lot for them to know that the author values them just as much as they value the author.”

“Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.”

Source : Dialectica, Vol. 2, No. 3/4 (p. 326), 1948.

“To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.”