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“I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.”
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“I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.”
Source : "Lanark: A Life in Four Books". Book by Alasdair Gray, 1981.
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“One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'”
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“We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way,”
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“The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.”
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“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”
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“In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
