“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”

“...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.”

“For nature does things in good order: And birds and butterflies recognizeNo man-made border”

“Everyone says she’s mad.’‘How do they know?’ I asked.‘Because she’s different from other people, I suppose.’‘Is that being mad?’‘No. Not really, I suppose madness is not seeing things as others see them.”

“People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity.Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.”

“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”

“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”

“It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.”

“I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.”

“The rain swirls over the trees and roofs of the town, and the parched earth soaks it up, exuding a fragrance that comes only once in a year, the fragrance of quenched earth, the most exhilarating of all smells.”

“Happiness can be as elusive as a small fish darting away in a mountain stream.”